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AMERICA. 



Class of 1878 



A RECORD 



OF THE 



Class of 1878 



OF 



Clje College 



UNIVERSITY OE PENNSYLVANIA 



1878 to 1898 




PHILADELPHIA 
1899 






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Copyright, 1899 

BY 

J. B. Lippincott Company 



Printed by 

J. B. Lippincott Company 

Philadelphia 







Contents 



PAGE 

The University since 1878 7 

The Class Organization since Graduation 17 

The Class . . ■ 19 

Class Sketches 21 

Necrology 149 

Houston Hall 152 

The College Faculty of 1878 155 



^be 1Hni\>et8it\> since 1878 

z^^^^HE growth of a university cannot properly be measured 
1 1 by a consideration of its material expansion alone, nor 
^^^ would a regard for its elevation in standards of instruc- 
tion and education only give a much more adequate conception 
of its real development. Nevertheless, in some degree the 
one is the outward expression of the other. Higher standards 
of education mean added facilities for instruction, increase in 
buildings and equipment and in the corps of professors and 
instructors, while the demands of modern science require the 
establishment of new schools and the division and sub-division 
of old departments of study into new and separate ones under 
independent faculties ; so that it may be said that a university 
cannot be great in achievement, in character, and that sincerity 
of purpose which aims at the highest ideals without evidencing 
it in some measure in its visible self. 

A fairly adequate conception of the growth of the University 
of Pennsylvania during the past twenty years may therefore be 
had by a consideration of her material accretions during that 
period, with such reference to the requirements of study and 
character of instruction as may be possible in a brief sketch. 

When the class of 1878 was graduated the land in West 
Philadelphia belonging to the University, available for campus 
and buildings, consisted of fifteen and one-half acres. By the 
acquisition of land situated immediately adjacent thereto the 
original holding has been increased to fifty-two and one-half 
acres. The Pennsylvania Railroad touching it at South Street 

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Station, five minutes from the Broad Street Terminal, and the 
trolley cars on two sides, twelve minutes from Broad and Wal- 
nut Streets, make this site, with respect to situation near the 
centre of a great city and to facilities for railroad and river trans- 
portation, the most valuable university property in this country. 

Three buildings — College Hall, Medical Hall, and the Uni- 
versity Hospital — were the only structures upon the campus in 
1878. Twenty-five buildings have since been added, of which 
the most important are : 

Erected. Cost. 

Medical Laboratory ^79 $70,000 

The Gibson Wing of the Hospital 1882 65,000 

Biological Hall 1884 40,000 

Veterinary Hall 1884 40,000 

Library Building 1891 210,000 

Laboratory of Hygiene 1892 60,000 

Mechanical Engineering Building and Central 

Heat and Light Station 1892 186,000 

Wistar I nstitute of Anatomy and Biology . . . 1893 265,000 

John Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry . . . 1894 120,000 

Dormitories 1896 380,000 

Henry Howard Houston Hall 1896 160,000 

The Agnevv Memorial Surgical Pavilion . . . 1897 175,000 

The William Pepper Laboratory 1897 25,000 

Dental Hall 1897 154,000 

Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology, West 

Wing (nearly complete) ^99 400,000 

An Astronomical Observatory has also been erected, at a cost 
of fifty thousand dollars, on the Flower Farm, also University 
property, situated about two miles from the city limits, on the 
West Chester Pike. 

In addition to the buildings already completed and in process 
of erection, plans are being prepared for a Physical Laboratory, 

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to cost three hundred thousand dollars, and for a Chemical Labo- 
ratory for the use of the Medical School, to cost a like sum. It is 
also proposed to extend the Dormitories in the immediate future, 
and a Committee of Alumni has been appointed to raise the sum 
of sixty thousand dollars for the erection of a Central Tower and 
Gate-way, to constitute the main entrance to the " Quad" which 
will be formed when the Dormitories are completed. This arch 
is to be dedicated in perpetual commemoration of the services of 
the undergraduates and alumni who took part in the recent war 
with Spain. 

Ground has also been broken for the new Law School at the 
corner of Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Streets. This department 
of the University, which, in 1878, delivered its lectures in the one 
room assigned to it in College Hall, will, upon the completion of 
the new structure, possess the finest law-school building in the 
world, with accommodations for five hundred and thirty students 
and one of the largest law-school libraries in this country. 

In 1878 the teaching force of the University consisted of 
ninety-five professors, instructors, and lecturers ; in 1898 it had 
increased to two hundred and fifty-eight. 

The increase in students during this period appears by the 
following table : 

In 1878. In 1898. Increase. 

The College and Department of Philosophy 264 1093 829 

Department of Medicine and Hygiene . . 511 953 442 

Department of Law 103 360 257 

Department of Dentistry 432 432 

Department of Veterinary Medicine 48 48 

Total Matriculations 878 2886 2008 

Deduct duplicate Matriculations . . 63 52 

815 2834 

Increase in Students 2019 

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New departments have been added as follows : 

The Department of Philosophy (Graduate School). 

The Department of Dentistry. 

The Department of Veterinary Medicine. 

The Department of Physical Education. 

The Department of Archaeology and Paleontology. 

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (for post-graduate and 

advanced work). 
The Flower Astronomical Observatory. 
The Laboratory of Hygiene. 

In the College have been added : 

The Course in Finance and Economy (Wharton School). 

The Course in Biology. 

The Courses in Architecture and Interior Decoration. 

The Course in Chemical Engineering. 

The Course in Electrical Engineering. 

With the growth of the University in material prosperity and 
dignity the standard of scholarship has kept pace. This is indi- 
cated, among other ways, by the increased requirements for 
admission in all departments. In the College the Faculty has 
adopted for entrance requirements the recommendations of a 
conference held in New York, in 1896, between representatives 
of the Universities of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Prince- 
ton, and Pennsylvania ; an action which, it may be noted, has not 
been generally taken by the other colleges recommending the 
increased requirements. 

The examinations for entrance in the professional schools, 
which in 1878 required no examination whatever upon admission, 
have steadily advanced in severity since their inauguration, and 
in 1899 the requirements for admission to the Law and Medical 



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Schools will be the same as those announced for candidates for 

the Freshman Class in the College. That the insistence upon a 

high standard of preparation will attract the 

best students is shown by the fact that in 

the Law School over sixty per cent, of 

those entering the present Freshman Class 

are college graduates, and that out of two 

hundred and thirteen who entered as new 

students in the last Freshman Class of the 

Medical School over fifty per cent, were 

graduates of colleges or approved high and 

normal schools and academies. 

The Medical School, which in 1878 had 
just increased its course from two years to / 

three years, with annual sessions of five months, now demands 
four years' work, with annual sessions of eight months. The 
course in the Law School has also been extended from two 
years to three years, with sessions of eight months, as have the 
courses in the School of Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine. 




Dr. Stille resigned the office of Provost in 1880, the provost- 
ship then remaining vacant until February 22, 1881, when Dr. 
William Pepper was publicly inaugurated as his successor. Dr. 
Pepper remained in office as Provost until Commencement Day, 
1894, when he resigned. Mr. Charles Custis Harrison then 
became acting Provost, declining to accept the full title until a 
year later, in 1895. 

Under Provost Stille the preparation for the years of expan- 
sion was made. Through his foresight and efforts the College 
and the Schools of Medicine and Law, which at the time consti- 



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tuted the University, moved from the lot of ground on Ninth 
Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, which they had 

occupied since 1802, to their present loca- 
tion. This change was made because of 
the conviction in the mind of the then 
Provost that the time was fast approach- 
ing when the University would require 
space for material growth. Through his 
efforts this land was secured, large sums 
of money were contributed towards the 
work of the University, the Hospital was 
built, and, most important of all, a new 
spirit awakened and a realization of its 
possible future secured to the University. 
Upon this foundation Dr. Pepper, Dr. Stille's successor, built. 
The period of his administration was one of extraordinary 
growth. Not only were the accretions in money, buildings, and 
land remarkable and the increase in teaching force and number 
of students notable, but in advances, which were contemporary 
with the spirit of the time, the University also progressed. The 
City was brought into relationship with the University by the 
establishment of fifty free scholarships ; women were admitted to 
the Board of Managers of the Hospital and a department for 
their Graduate Work opened ; the Society for the Extension of 
University Teaching and the University Lecture Association were 
founded and the Dormitory Principle was adopted. Fourteen 
schools or departments were established, thirteen buildings were 
erected, courses were extended, and the work in every depart- 
ment of the University stimulated. 

With Provost Harrison's succession came a continuance of 



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the work on the lines laid down by his two predecessors and an 
adventuring upon those conceived by himself. The material 
welfare of the University having been so 
well secured, Provost Harrison devoted 
himself especially to its educational de- 
velopment. One of his first acts was 
the gift of five hundred thousand dollars 
for the establishment of the George Leib 
Harrison Fund. The annual income 
of this money supports eight graduate 
scholarships, fourteen fellowships, and 
five senior fellowships, for work in the 
higher branches of the arts and sciences. 
Mr. Harrison has undertaken to secure for the University an en- 
dowment fund of five million dollars, to which large contributions 
have already been made. 

The erection of the Observatory and the creation of the 
Flower Professorship of Astronomy mark another step in the 
growth of the University under its present management. The 
erection of Dental Hall, of the Dormitory Buildings, of the first 
wing of the great Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology, with 
its adjoining public park and Botanic Garden, and the commence- 
ment of a building for the Law School mark the carrying out of 
cherished plans of long standing, but the securing to the students 
of Houston Hall marks a new era. The mental care of its 
students has long been the recognized and accomplished duty 
of all universities ; the physical care of its students has lately 
been assumed by the University of Pennsylvania with the open- 
ing of its dormitories ; but Houston Hall is the first step at any 
university towards the social care of its undergraduates. A 

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complete story of Houston Hall's origin and purpose is given 
elsewhere in this volume in the Provost's own words. 

This sketch would be incomplete without reference to the 
work of the undergraduates, during the last twenty years, in 
athletics. In 1883 the Trustees of the University authorized the 
Athletic Association to lay out and maintain an athletic field at 
the corner of Thirty-seventh and Spruce Streets. This field was 
used until 1895, when the Trustees decided to erect dormitories 
upon it, and in its stead set apart for the use of the Athletic 
Association a new and much larger tract of land at the corner 
of Thirty-third and Spruce Streets, now known as Franklin Field. 

For several years Pennsylvania has won the intercollegiate 
championship in track and field athletics in competition with Yale, 
Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and a number of other representa- 
tive American colleges and universities. In June, 1898, she 
became the champion in intercollegiate rowing by defeating, in 
record time, the Cornell eight, after the latter had been success- 
ful, a week before, in defeating Yale and Harvard. In foot-ball 
for the past five years she has been in the front rank. Princeton 
was defeated in 1892, and again in 1894, since which time no 
games have been played between Pennsylvania and Princeton. 
Harvard was defeated in four successive years, from 1894 to 
1897, Pennsylvania, however, losing to her in the fall of 1898. 
In base-ball and in cricket the University is well represented, 
maintaining a high standard of excellence in both of these 
branches of sport. 

Within the last ten years Faculty supervision of athletics has 
been inaugurated and carried out with great benefit to the best 
interests of the athletic life of the University. No student is 

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permitted to take part in any branch of athletics unless he is 
in good standing in his university work, and shall first satisfy the 
authorities that he is free from taint of athletic professionalism. 
In the formulation and faithful carrying out of rules and regu- 
lations covering the honest and honorable management of ath- 
letics, Pennsylvania is a leading and influential spirit among the 
colleges of the country. The success which representatives of 
Pennsylvania have had in their athletic contests with other col- 
leges has been the means, by arousing throughout the whole 
University a common interest and enthusiasm, of creating a 
strong university feeling, which has obliterated all factional lines 
between the several departments. 

Other factors have been, however, scarcely less potent in 
ministering to the growth of this spirit. Houston Hall, with its 
daily attendance of over twelve hundred students, has brought 
about a commingling of men from all the departments of the 
University under conditions which encourage a wide range of 
acquaintanceship beyond the ordinary boundaries of class- and 
lecture-room ; and the dormitories have contributed, in the same 
way, their share of influence to this end. 

The University's dramatic club, — the Mask and Wig, — which 
has been in existence since 1889 and gives its yearly production 
during Easter week, draws for its membership and cast from the 
whole body of the students, as do the various musical clubs. 
The large number of Greek letter fraternities, moreover, which 
maintain organizations at the University bring into intimate 
relationship their quota of men from all departments. 

Many other student organizations have sprung into existence 
since the erection of Houston Hall and the Dormitories, whose 
membership is entirely independent of departmental lines, and 

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within which one may find college, medical, and law men gather- 
ing together upon common ground and with a common interest 
apart from their academic duties. 

All of these influences have combined to create a live and 
forceful activity in the social life of the University, affecting 
professors and students alike, and promising for the future a 
still greater development of that strong and persistent Penn- 
sylvania individuality which already dominates to an appreciable 
extent the community which has come under its influence. 




PORCH OF THE LIBRARY 



(Class ©roam3ation since (Svabuatton 

/^^^^HE last meeting of the Class of 1878, before graduation, 
I was held on May 15, 1878. From 1878 until 1887 there 

^^^ were no meetings ; but in the fall of the latter year cer- 
tain members of the Class, feeling that the organization should be 
revived, issued a circular calling for a preliminary gathering, to be 
held at the house of Mr. Helme, in Philadelphia, on November 16. 

Eighteen men were present on this occasion. Mr. Norris was 
chosen chairman. It was resolved to call a meeting to perfect 
a permanent organization and to have a banquet in commemora- 
tion of the tenth anniversary of graduation. The following com- 
mittee was appointed to make arrangements : Messrs. Norris, 
McCollin, Helme, Rudderow, Murphy, and Hall. 

The meeting was held on the evening of January 31, 1888, at 
the Hotel Bellevue, Philadelphia, and was followed by a banquet. 
There were twenty-two members of the Class present. Mr. 
d'Invilliers was elected President, Mr. Hoffman Vice-President, 
and Mr. Rudderow Secretary. It was voted to have an annual 
meeting on the last day of January of each year. 

At the annual meeting of January 31, 1889, by-laws were 
adopted ; the officers being a President, a Vice-President, and a 
Secretary-Treasurer. In 1893 the date of the annual meeting 
was changed to the third Thursday in January. 

Messrs. d'Invilliers and Hoffman have been President and 
Vice-President respectively since the reorganization of the Class, 
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and Mr. Rudderow was the Secretary-Treasurer for the first nine 
years. Mr. Church was elected Secretary-Treasurer in 1897. 
All the annual meetings have been held in Philadelphia, and all 
at the University Club except that of 1888, which was held at the 
Hotel Bellevue, and that of 1898, at the Hotel Stenton. The 
membership of the organization is now forty-eight. 




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DORMITORIES — ENTRANCE TO "LITTLE QUAD" 



XTbe Class 



president 

EDWARD VINCENT dTNVILLIERS 



Dice^presifcent 

JOSIAH OGDEN HOFFMAN 



5ecretar£*Ureasurer 

ARTHUR LATHAM CHURCH 



.Matriculates 



Henry Blackwell Bartow 
William Murphy Benerman 
Rufus Howard Bent 
William Sergeant Blight, Jr. 
William Pratt Breed, Jr. 
George Ethan Brooks 
Edward Swift Buckley, Jr. 
William Anthony Bullock 
Washington Atlee Burpee 
Laurin Whiting Burton 
John Cassin 

Arthur Latham Church 
Clarence Munroe Clark 
Herman Clarke 
William Greene Cochran 
James Clark Corry 
Wilson Darling Craig 
James Chalice Craven 
John Price Crozer 
Edward Vincent d'Invilliers 



Gertrude Klein Peirce Easby 
William Patten El well 
Anna Lockhart Flanigen 
Charles Pemberton Fox 
George Cuthbert Gillespie 
John Graham 
William Henry Grant 
Clifford Prevost Grayson 
Walter Ferdinand Hall 
Frederick Fraley Hallowell 
William Johns Harkness 
Alan Hale Harris 
Henry Reed Hatfield 
Reuben Augustus Heaton 
William Edward Helme 
Charles Philip Henry 
Josiah Ogden Hoffman 
Henry Howard Houston, Jr. 
Charles Bender Hurley 
Henry Atlee Ingram 



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William Hemphill Ingram 
William Archer Irving 
Henry Scott Jefferys 
William Norton Johnson 
Clarence Kennedy 
Henry Martyn Kneedler 
Joseph Jones Knowles 
Pedro Pascual Perfecto Lacoste 
Frederick Humphreviile Lewis 
Horace Cooper Lex 
Joshua Bertram Lippincott 
William Kilbreth Lowrey 
Henry Grattan McCarter 
Edward Garrett McCollin 
Michael McCue 
Harry McDowell 
Edward Shippen McIlvaine 
Henry Albert MacKubbin 
Samuel Augustus Martin 



Charles Frederick Moore 
John Hassinger Murphy 
William Henry Norris 
John Curtis Patterson 
Thomas Barclay Prichett 
Charles Fithian Reeves 
James Renwick Rodgers 
William Lee Rowland 
Augustus Janney Rudderow 
Stephen Fotterall Russell 
Charles Alfred Rutter 
John Morin Scott 
Richard Bowden Shepherd 
Isaac Scott Smyth, Jr. 
William Henry Stetler 
John Alexander Teaz 
Augustus Thouron 
Thomas Earle White 
Nelson Oliver Whitney 

Total, 78 






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HENRY BLACKWELL BARTOW 

Certificate of Proficiency (Arts), LL.B. 

ARTOW entered the Freshman Class, Department of 
Arts, in 1874, as a partial student, receiving a Certifi- 
cate of Proficiency in 1878. Afterwards he entered the 
Law School of the University, and was graduated therefrom in 
1 88 1, since which time he has practised law in Philadelphia. He 
is now and has been for some years trust officer of the Northern 
Saving Fund Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Philadelphia. 
He has been active in the affairs of both Church and State, 
having acted as secretary of the vestry of St. Andrew's Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church since 1896, and as chairman of the Eighth 
Ward Republican Executive Committee in 1887 and 1888. 

Bartow is an active member of the Law Academy of Philadel- 
phia, having served in 1885 as secretary, in 1886 as vice-president, 
and in 1888 as president of that organization. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, of 
the Germantown Cricket Club, and of the Philadelphia Cricket 
Club. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. 

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Bartow has contributed a number of articles to the u Ameri- 
can and English Encyclopaedia of Law" (first edition). The 
articles on Assignments, Banks and Banking, Checks, and Con- 
tribution in this Encyclopaedia are from his pen. He has also 
acted as librarian of the Hirst Free Law Library. 

Born August 4, 1858, Bristol, Pennsylvania; parents, Rev. 
Henry Blackwell Bartow and Mary Welsh Phillips. Residence, 
No. 2107 De Lancey Place, Philadelphia ; business address, south- 
west corner of Sixth and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia. 



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WILLIAM MURPHY BENERMAN 

ENERMAN entered the Scientific Department as a 
Freshman in 1874, and left College at the close of 
his Sophomore Year, since which time he has followed 
the occupation of stock-broker in the city of Philadelphia. 

He is a member of the Union League and of the Athletic 
Club of the Schuylkill Navy. He has been interested in boat- 
ing, having been captain of the West Philadelphia Boat Club 
from 1886 to 1890, and vice-commodore of the Schuylkill Navy 
from 1890 to 1892. 

Born December 11, 1858, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; parents, 
Michael Fields Benerman and Louisa L. Bilderback ; married, 
November 26, 1884, Viola Watkins ; children, Watkins and 
Dorothy. Residence, No. 7308 Boyer Street, Mt. Airy, Phila- 
delphia ; business address, No. 304 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 



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RUFUS HOWARD BENT 

A.B. 

ENT entered the Freshman Class in 1874 as a student in 
the Department of Arts. After graduation he studied 
at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City 
during 1878 and 1879, and afterwards at the Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary, being graduated from the latter in 1881. Subse- 
quently he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Edge 
Hill, Pennsylvania, and later removed to Cedarville, New Jersey. 
On March 20, 1893, he was appointed a foreign missionary under 
the care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian 
Church, and is at present enrolled as a member of the Presbytery 
of Chinan (Synod of China, Northern), with head-quarters at 
Chining-Chow, China, a city of about two hundred thousand 

inhabitants. 

Born, September 23, 1850, at Parkesburg, Chester County, 
Pennsylvania ; parents, David J. Bent and Emeline M. Arm- 
strong ; married in China, on April 2, 1896, Miss Sarah A. 
Poindexter, M.D., also a missionary ; child, Fanny, born July 29, 
1898. Address, care of Foreign Missions, Chining-Chow, China. 

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WILLIAM SERGEANT BLIGHT, JR. 



A.B., LL.B., A.M. 



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LIGHT entered College in 1874 as a Freshman in the 
Department of Arts. After leaving College he matricu- 
lated in the Law School of the University, and was 
graduated therefrom in 1880. He practised law in Philadelphia 
from 1880 to 1887. In the latter year he gave up the law and 
turned to the more congenial work of teaching, founding the 
Blight School, a preparatory school for boys, of which he is still 
the head. 

Blight is a member of Delta Psi, of Phi Beta Kappa, and of 
the College Alumni Society. 

Born, Philadelphia, March 7, 1858 ; parents, William Sergeant 
Blight (Class of 1846) and Sarah C. Penrose; married, Decem- 
ber 5, 1890, Cornelia Taylor Blight (daughter of Isaac Oliver 
Blight, Class of 1850). Residence, No. 141 2 Pine Street, Phila- 
delphia ; business address, No. 401 South Twenty-second Street, 

Philadelphia. 

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WILLIAM PRATT BREED, JR. 



A.B. 



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REED came into the Class as a Freshman, Department 
of Arts, in 1874. After graduation he spent several 
months of the year 1878 in Europe. On his return he 
entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, but, ill-health com- 
pelling him to lose a year of his course, he was not graduated 
from the Seminary until 1882. He spent his vacations from the 
Princeton Seminary in charge of a small church at Malden-on- 
the-Hudson. After graduation from Princeton, Breed took a 
post-graduate course at the Union Theological Seminary, New 
York City, and in 1883 accepted a call as pastor from the Fair- 
view Presbyterian Church at Glen Moore, Pennsylvania, where he 
remained for seven years. On January 1, 1890, he went to the 
First Presbyterian Church at Milton, Pennsylvania, and was pastor 
there until his death, February 12, 1895. 

Breed was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. 

Born, Philadelphia, February 7, 1858 ; parents, Rev. William 

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Pratt Breed and Rebecca Sharp Murray; married, June n, 1884, 
Georgiana C. Clark ; children, Herbert Allen, born and died No- 
vember 20, 1885, Ethel, born July 27, 1887, and Helen Murray, 
born March 5, 1892. Died at Tryon, North Carolina, February 
12, 1895. 




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GEORGE ETHAN BROOKS 

A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

ROOKS matriculated in 1874 as a student in the Fresh- 
man Class, Department of Arts. After graduation from 
the College he took up the study of the law, entering 
the Class of 1882 of the Law School, from which he was gradu- 
ated in course. Since that time he has pursued the practice of 
his profession in Philadelphia. 

Born December 8, 1857 ; parents, George Brooks and Marilla 
Taylor. Residence, No. 12 14 North Eighteenth Street, Philadel- 
phia; business address, No. 625 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 



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EDWARD SWIFT BUCKLEY, JR. 

A.B., A.M. 

UCKLEY was admitted to the Freshman Class, Depart- 
ment of Arts, in 1874. After graduating he entered his 
father's business, the Gray's Ferry Iron Works, where 
he remained until 1888. From that time until recently he was 
out of active business, but lately accepted the position of presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Crum Lynne Iron and Steel Company. 

Buckley is a member of Delta Psi, of the College Alumni 
Society, of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, of which he has been 
president since 1892, of the Aztec Club, University Club, and 
Germantown Cricket Club. He is also a member of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences, of the Board of Directors of the Pennsyl- 
vania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and of the Civil Service 
Reform Association, of which he is also a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee. He is a member and director of the Church 
Club, and one of the Board of Directors of the Episcopal 
Academy of this city ; of the Society for the Advancement of 

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Christianity in Pennsylvania, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
and of the Seamen's Mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
Born in Philadelphia, September 30, 1858 ; parents, Edward 
Swift Buckley and Katharine Watmough ; married June 7, 1883, 
Charlotte Carter ; child, Edward Swift, 3d. Residence, No. 2039 
Sansom Street, Philadelphia ; business address, No. 505 Chestnut 
Street, Philadelphia. 




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WILLIAM ANTHONY BULLOCK 

A.B. 

ULLOCK entered the Freshman Class in 1874 as a 
student in the Department of Arts. Since graduation 
he has been associated with his father, as a manufac- 
turing chemist, in the firm of Bullock & Crenshaw, Philadelphia. 
He is a member of the College Alumni Society. 

Born, Philadelphia, August 1, 1856 ; parents, Charles Bullock 
and Margaret C. Robinson; married, December 10, 1891, Jo- 
sephine Shreve ; children, Margaret Robinson, born March 15, 
1893, died July 24, 1893, and Josephine, born April 27, 1894. 
Residence, No. 1017 Clinton Street, Philadelphia; business ad- 
dress, No. 528 Arch Street. 



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WASHINGTON ATLEE BURPEE 

URPEE matriculated in 1874, and was admitted to the 
Freshman Class, Department of Arts. He left College 
during the first term of his Sophomore Year, and shortly 
thereafter entered the Medical Department of the University, 
remaining there, however, but for one year. In 1876 he went 
into business as a seed merchant, founding the house of which he 
is the head. He has written and published several pamphlets on 
matters allied to his business. He is a member of the General 
Alumni Society, of the Union League, the Bachelors' Barge, the 
Art, and the University Clubs of Philadelphia ; of the Arts, the 
Sphinx, and the Collie Clubs of New York ; of the Royal Hor- 
ticultural Society of London ; and of the Societe Nationale 
d' Horticulture of Paris. 

Born, Sheffield, New Brunswick, April 5, 1858 ; parents, 
David Burpee and Ann Catharine Atlee; married, April 30, 
1892, Blanche Simons; children, David, born April 5, 1893, 
and Washington Atlee, Jr., born October 25, 1894. Residence, 
No. 1332 Arch Street, Philadelphia; business address, Nos. 475 
and 477 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia, and Fordhook Farms, 
Doylestown, Pennsylvania. 



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LAURIN WHITING BURTON 

URTON matriculated in January, 1874, in the Scientific 
Department, entering the Class of 1877 in the second 
term. Afterwards he was transferred to the Class of 
1878, and left College during the Sophomore Year, going imme- 
diately into business. In 1878 he became an inspector of build- 
ings in the city of New York, which office he held until 1895, 
when he secured a position with the New York, Lake Erie and 
Western Railroad Company, which he still retains. 

Born, Philadelphia, February 9, 1857 ; parents, Aaron Bow- 
man Burton and Deborah A. Trites ; married, June 11, 1889, 
Marguerite Kerr Ready. Address, No. 90 Bentley Avenue, 
Jersey City, New Jersey. 



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JOHN CASSIN 

CASSIN matriculated in the Department of Arts in the fall 
of 1874, but left College at the close of the Freshman 
Year, and shortly afterwards went into business. In 1878 
he became an auditor in the office of the controller of Philadelphia 
County, Pennsylvania, and remained there in that capacity until 
his death, in 1897. 

Born, Norristown, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1855 ; parents, 
Isaac Sharpless Cassin and Emily Hunter ; married Mary White- 
lock Lare ; died June 8, 1897. 



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ARTHUR LATHAM CHURCH 



B.S. 



MITH the intention of securing practical experience 
in Mechanical Engineering, Church entered the 
employ of the William Cramp & Sons' Ship and 
Engine Building Company, in the fall of 1878, as an apprentice 
in their machine shops. In about two years he was transferred 
to the draughting-room, where he remained until June, 1882. 
During his stay at Cramps' he was engaged in the design and 
construction of the engines of some of the best known vessels 
of the day. 

With the same object in view, in June, 1882, he became oiler 
and electrician of the steamship 4k Queen of the Pacific," on its 
initial voyage to San Francisco. The vessel called at Rio de 
Janeiro, Punta Arenas, in Magellan Straits, Valparaiso, and Port 
Harford, California, arriving in San Francisco eleven weeks after 
leaving Philadelphia. From San Francisco, Church made four- 
teen trips by sea to Portland, Oregon. On March 16, 1883, he 

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passed the government examination, receiving papers entitling 
him to serve as third assistant engineer of ocean steamships. 
A few days later he joined the crew of the steamship " City of 
Peking," as sixth assistant engineer, bound for Japan and China. 
After returning from this voyage he, in June, joined the steamship 
" Granada" as third assistant engineer, sailing for Panama, calling 
en route at various ports in Mexico and Central America. On 
his return to San Francisco, Church left the "Granada," and, 
having obtained the sea experience desired, entered the employ 
of the Union Iron Works of San Francisco as draughtsman in 
September, 1883, remaining there until July, 1884. He then 
returned to Philadelphia overland, arriving there after about two 
years' absence. 

In August, immediately after his arrival in Philadelphia, 
Church was placed in charge of the engines and boilers at the 
Electrical Exhibition of the Franklin Institute at Thirty-second 
Street and Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia. During the follow- 
ing winter he was occupied in testing engines and boilers, and 
during the spring in a duration test of incandescent electric 
lamps for the Franklin Institute. In July he was made superin- 
tendent of the Mechanical Schools of the Spring Garden Institute 
of Philadelphia, and in the fall of 1885 was appointed to the 
supervision of the engines and boilers of the Novelties Exhibition 
of the Franklin Institute. 

In March, 1886, he was placed in charge of one of the depart- 
ments at the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, which 
position he has since held. In this position he has made several 
short journeys, and in September, 1895, a voyage to Peru with an 
expedition organized by Sir Henry Tyler, of London, to determine 
whether electricity could be applied to the railroads of that coun- 

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try. On this journey he examined the Panama Canal, crossed 
the Andes Mountains twice, the first time proceeding from Callao 
to the head-waters of the Amazon River on the eastern slope 
of the mountains, and the second time going- from Mollendo to 
La Paz, Bolivia, returning to Antofagasta on the coast of Chile. 
Church has patented several inventions in the line of his profes- 
sion, and has also found time, outside of it, to do some clever 
work as an etcher and water-colorist, several of his sketches 
being reproduced in this volume. 

He has kept up a very active interest in University affairs, 
being a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity ; a member of the 
Graduate Advisory Board of the University of Pennsylvania 
Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs, season of 1897 ; and of the 
College and General Alumni Societies. 

He is also a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 
in which he served as a member of the Committee on Science and 
the Arts, from January, 1892, to January, 1896; of the Spring 
Garden Institute, of Philadelphia, of which he has been a mana- 
ger since June, 1889 ; of the Fairmount Park Art Associa- 
tion ; of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ; of the 
Orpheus Club, in which he has served as librarian, secretary, 
and member of the executive committee ; of the University Club 
of Philadelphia ; and of the Germantown Cricket Club. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 11, 1858; parents, William 
Augustus Church and Elizabeth Inskeep Barker ; married, 
December 5, 1888, Louisa Brant; child, Herbert, born Octo- 
ber 4, 1890; residence, No. 5 121 Pulaski Avenue, Germantown, 
Philadelphia ; business address, No. 500 North Broad Street, 
Philadelphia. 



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CLARENCE MUNROE CLARK 

A.B. 

CLARK came into the Freshman Class, Department of 
Arts, in 1874. In September following his graduation 
he started upon his business career by entering the 
chemical laboratory of the Midvale Steel Works at Nicetown, 
Philadelphia. His purpose in entering this establishment was 
to secure a detailed and accurate knowledge of the chemical 
part of steel manufacture, a department which was promising 
to become an important one in the process of making steel. 
After a short period in this department Clark entered the forging 
department, of which he soon became the head. In 1883 he was 
given a six-months' leave of absence, which he spent abroad, 
examining the steel works of England, France, Belgium, and 
Germany. On his return he took charge of the manufacture of 
the ordnance material and the locomotive- and car-wheel tires at 
the Midvale Works, securing speedy promotion to the post of 
second assistant superintendent, and in 1886 to the position of 
assistant superintendent. 

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In 1887 Clark left the Midvale Steel Works to become secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Flat Top Coal Land Association, a 
company owning almost the entire territory from which Poca- 
hontas coal is mined. The development of this land led to the 
formation of various iron companies for the mining of iron ore 
and the manufacture of pig iron, and of similar and collateral 
companies ; so that from 1887 to 1893 Clark was actively en- 
gaged in the management of corporations which were operating 
mines and furnaces and developing land. 

In September, 1893, he joined the banking house of E. W. 
Clark & Co., of Philadelphia, taking charge of their outside 
interests, particularly of their street railway and car trust busi- 
ness, at the same time retaining his position of vice-president and 
treasurer of the Flat Top Coal Land Association. 

Clark is a member of Delta Psi, the College and General 
Alumni Societies, the University Club of Philadelphia, the Ger- 
mantown Cricket Club, the Philadelphia Country Club, and the 
Scranton Club. 

Born August 27, 1859, at Germantown, Philadelphia; parents, 
Edward W. Clark and Mary Todhunter Sill ; married, November, 
13, 1884, Mary N. Taylor; children, Edward Winslow, Franklin 
Taylor, and Clarence Sewell. Residence, No. 5353 Magnolia 
Street, Germantown, Philadelphia ; business address, Bullitt 
Building, Philadelphia. 



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HERMAN CLARKE 

CLARKE left College during the Freshman Year, having 
matriculated as a student in the Department of Arts in 
the Fall of 1874. He is a member of Delta Psi. 
He has since followed the calling of a stock-broker in New 
York City. 

Born, Philadelphia, February 15, 1858; parents, Thomas C. 
Clarke and . Address, No. 44 Broadway, New York City. 



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WILLIAM GREENE COCHRAN 

COCHRAN was admitted in 1874 to the Freshman Class, 
Scientific Department. He left at the close of his first 
term in the Sophomore Year, afterwards entering Lehigh 
University. He is a member of Delta Psi. 

He has been a merchant in Philadelphia since finishing his 
studies. 

Born, Philadelphia, December 17, 1857; parents, William 
Cochran and Eliza Burton Penrose ; married Gertrude L. Can- 
nell. Residence, No. 1431 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 



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JAMES CLARK CORRY 

A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

CORRY entered the Class in 1874, as a student in the 
Freshman Class, Department of Arts. After graduation 
he matriculated in the Law School of the University, 
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1880. 
Since that time he has practised his profession in Philadelphia. 
He is a member of Delta Psi, of the College Alumni Society, of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences, and of the University Club of 
Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, May 3, 1857 ; parents, John Corry and 
Letitia Clark; married, April 12, 1887, Anna Coates Landell ; 
children, John and Mabel. Residence, No. 117 North Nineteenth 
Street, Philadelphia ; business address, No. 263 South Fourth 
Street, Philadelphia. 



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WILSON DARLING CRAIG 

CRAIG entered with the Freshman Class, in 1874, as a 
student in the Department of Arts, and died in his 
Junior Year. He was a member of Delta Psi. 
In 1895 his sister, Alice D. Craig Hatfield, and brother, Hugh 
Craig, Jr., contributed to the University, as a memorial of their 
brother, a fund sufficient to erect one of the Dormitory Houses, 
which has been named the Wilson D. Craig House. 

Born, Philadelphia, November 16, 1856 ; parents, Hugh Craig 
and Catharine McCausland ; died, Philadelphia, March 12, 1877. 




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IRecorfc of tbe Class of 1878, Tflntverstty of Pennsylvania 




JAMES CHALICE CRAVEN 

A.B., A.M. 

CRAVEN entered College originally with the Class of 1876, 
matriculating in 1872. He was soon, however, obliged 
to discontinue his studies, but subsequently re-entered 
the University in 1874, as a Freshman in the Class of 1878, 
Department of Arts. After graduation Craven studied at the 
Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Phila- 
delphia. He was appointed assistant at Holy Trinity Church, 
Philadelphia, afterwards was called as rector of the Epiphany 
Church, Providence, Rhode Island, later as rector of a church 
at Dubuque, Iowa, and on May 1, 1890, was elected assistant 
minister of the Church of the Saviour, Philadelphia, where he 
remained until May 1, 1892. His last charge was a mission 
church at Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. 

Born, Philadelphia, September 22, 1848 ; parents, James 
Chalice Craven and Elizabeth Price ; died, Philadelphia, March 

25. l %93- 

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JOHN PRICE CROZER 



CROZER entered the Scientific Department of the College 
in 1874, as a Freshman, and left in his Junior Year, 
since which time he has been occupied chiefly as a 
manufacturer of cotton goods, being a member with his father 
of the firm of Samuel A. Crozer & Son, of Upland, Pennsylvania. 
He is treasurer of the Crozer Iron Company and of the Edith 
Iron Mining Company, president of the Upland Coal and Coke 
Company, a director in the Delaware County National Bank, 
and clerk of the Upland Baptist Church. He is a member of the 
Art, University, and Union League Clubs of Philadelphia, and 
of the Corinthian Yacht Club, being a yachtsman of considerable 
note. 

Born, Upland, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1858; parents, 
Samuel A. Crozer and Abby Coates Cheney ; married, January 
29, 1880, Elizabeth S. Warder; children, Margaret W., Josephine, 
Abby C, and Elizabeth W. Residence and business address, 
Upland, Pennsylvania. 

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EDWARD VINCENT d'INVILLIERS 

B.S. 



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D+MK NVILLIERS did not enter the Class until Sophomore 
Year, matriculating in the Scientific Department in 
1875. After his graduation he was, until 1885, a 
regular member of the staff of the Second Geological Survey of 
Pennsylvania, under Dr. J. Peter Lesley, from whom d'Invilliers 
had received his professional instruction in the Towne Scientific 
School. 

Assuming a private office for expert professional work in 
1885, he nevertheless continued to perform work for the Survey, 
contributing special memoirs to the succeeding Annual Reports 
on the geology of the Pittsburg Coal Region and the unique 
Cornwall Iron Ore Mines of Lebanon County, both of these 
handsomely illustrated with standard maps. His final contribu- 
tion to the literature of the Survey was the work of compiling 
and editing those portions of the Pinal Summary of the Geology 
of Pennsylvania relating to the bituminous coal-fields of the State, 

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which, on account of the illness of the director, the Board of 
Commissioners assigned to him. 

The intimate and extended acquaintance with the coal and 
iron interests of the Keystone State thus gained, naturally pre- 
pared him for expert work in the Appalachian district of America, 
and in the past decade the greater part of his time has been 
devoted to the examination and development of coal, iron, 
manganese, cements, and phosphates, from Canada to Alabama, 
as well as in Cuba and the West Indies. Of late he has been 
considerably engaged in expert work on the precious metals, 
principally gold, in the West and in Mexico. 

d'Invilliers has published reports on Berks, Centre, Juniata, 
Mifflin, Snyder, and Union Counties of Pennsylvania, and upon 
the Limestones and Iron Ores of the Great Valley of Lebanon, 
Dauphin, Cumberland, and Franklin Counties of Pennsylvania, 
and the following published monographs and reports : The Ge- 
ology of the Pittsburg Coal Region and the Cornwall Iron Ore 
Mines of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania ; Final Summary of the 
Geology of Pennsylvania, Vol. III., Parts II. and III. ; The Cripple 
Creek — New River Region of Virginia ; The Geology of the 
Clinch Valley ; A Comparison of some Southern Cokes and Iron 
Ores ; The Brown Hematite (Limonite) Ores of the Siluro-Cam- 
brian Limestone of Centre County, Pennsylvania ; Phosphate 
Deposits of the Island of Navassa, West Indies ; Resources of 
the Upper Cumberland Valley of Southeast Kentucky and South- 
west Virginia ; The Lilly and Crescent Mines of Page County, 
Virginia ; The Bradenville Coal Lands of the Connellsville Basin, 
Pennsylvania ; The Humes, Holt & Co.'s Lands in the Snow 
Shoe Basin, Pennsylvania ; The Valentine Iron Ore Lands, Centre 
County, Pennsylvania ; Resources along the W r est Virginia and 
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Ironton Railroad, West Virginia ; The Virginia and Tennessee 
Coal and Iron Company, and Somerset Coal Lands, Pennsylvania. 

Published memoirs of his examinations for the Norfolk and 
Western Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and for 
private mining corporations, have resulted in large investments of 
capital. 

d'Invilliers is a member of the University Club ; the College 
Alumni Society ; the American Philosophical Society of Philadel- 
phia ; the American Institute of Mining Engineers, of which he 
was vice-president from 1894 to 1896; the Franklin Institute of 
Philadelphia ; the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, of which he 
was a director in 1 890 ; and a fellow of the Geological Society 
of America. He has contributed papers to the transactions of 
these societies, and is at present consulting engineer for and 
director in several mining corporations in Pennsylvania, West 
Virginia, and Mexico. 

d'Invilliers has been president of the Class since graduation. 

Born at Germantown, Philadelphia, August 2, 1857 ; parents, 
Camille d'Invilliers and Ann S. Maitland ; married, June 6, 1894, 
Ann Maitland ; children, Virginia Maitland and Anne Maitland. 
Residence, No. 6630 McCallum Street, Germantown, Philadelphia ; 
business address, No. 711 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 



IRecorb of tbe Class of 1878, 'Wniversit? of Pennsylvania 





GERTRUDE KLEIN PEIRCE EASBY 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 

^M^RS. EASBY, then Miss Peirce, entered the Class in 
I II | 1876 as a special student in Chemistry, receiving a 
■■^ , Certificate of Proficiency in June, 1878. She took a 
year's post-graduate course at the University during 1878 and 
1879. Mrs. Easby has given considerable attention to Reforma- 
tory and Preventive work among girls, and in the line of this 
work has served two terms as a member, on the part of the city, 
of the Board of Directors of the Female House of Refuge, of 
Baltimore, Maryland, a city and State institution. When the 
appointment was made it was one of five similar positions filled 
by women for the first time in the history of Baltimore. Mrs. 
Easby helped to organize the New Century Club, of Wilmington, 
Delaware, during her one time residence in that city, and was a 
founder and member of the first Board of Governors of the 
Arundell Club, of Baltimore. She is also a member of the 
College and Progress Clubs, of Baltimore, and a life member of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia. Mrs. Easby 
was joint author with Professor Edgar F. Smith, Ph.D., of the 
University, of a treatise on Nitration Meta Chlor. Salicylic Acid. 

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Born, Philadelphia, May 16, 1859; parents, Cyrus Newlin 
Peirce, D.D.S., and Charlotte Van Vorst Woodward ; married, 
January 24, 1884, Francis Hoskins Easby (Class of 1881) ; child, 
John Newlin Peirce, born October 16, 1896. Residence, No. 
1223 Mt. Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. 




IRecort) of tbe Class of 1878, ^University of Pennsylvania 





WILLIAM PATTEN ELWELL 



B.S 



ELWELL was admitted to College in 1874 as a Freshman 
in the Scientific Department. He has lived in Phila- 
delphia since his graduation, following his chosen voca- 
tion of a merchant, succeeding his father in the firm of Darrah 
& Elwell, ship chandlers. 

He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, of the College Alumni 
Society, of the Priestley Club of the University, and of the Union 
League of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, January 19, 1858 ; parents, Joseph Sprague 
Elwell and Rachel Jane Patten ; married, Mary D. Stulb ; chil- 
dren, Joseph S., born and died, 1886 ; Rachel, born, 1888 ; Theo- 
dora S., born, 1892. Residence, No. 2207 Mt. Vernon Street, 
Philadelphia ; business address, No. 5 1 2 South Delaware Avenue, 
Philadelphia. 



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ANNA LOCKHART FLANIGEN 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 

^■M^ISS FLANIGEN entered the Scientific Department 
W I j of the University in 1876, as a special student in 
^^ Chemistry, receiving a Certificate of Proficiency in 
June, 1878. She then took a two years' post-graduate course 
in Physics and Chemistry, with additional laboratory work. Miss 
Flanigen taught chemistry for a year, this being followed by a 
second year's work as instructor in physics and chemistry, with 
laboratory work, after which, in 1883, she accepted the position of 
chemist and assayer with the Keystone Watch Case Company, 
being one of the first women to take up the profession of assayer. 
Early in 1898 Miss Flanigen resigned this position because of ill 
health and went abroad, travelling on the Continent and through 
Great Britain until the latter part of the year, when she entered 
the University College of London, where she is now studying 
with a view to more advanced scientific work. 

Miss Flanigen has the distinction of being the first woman ad- 
mitted as a student in any department of the University, except 
that of Music. She is a member of the New Century Club of 

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Philadelphia, and was one of the original members and secretary 
of the New Century Working Women's Guild. 

Born, Philadelphia, January 26, 1852 ; parents, William C. 
Flanigen and Jane Adams. Residence, No. 2120 Spruce Street, 
Philadelphia. 




IRecorb of tbe Class of 1878, ^University of Pennsylvania 



CHARLES PEMBERTON FOX 

rOX entered the Freshman Class, Scientific Department, 
in 1874, and left during his Sophomore Year. For 
several years after leaving College he devoted himself 
to commercial pursuits in the city of Philadelphia. After his 
father's death, in 1883, he withdrew from business and travelled 
abroad for about a year. He never entered actively into business 
again, but has maintained his residence continuously in Philadel- 
phia, making, however, several quite extensive European trips. 

Fox is a member of the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, and Coun- 
try Clubs of Philadelphia. 

Born, "Chestnut Wood," Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1858 ; 
parents, George Fox, M.D., and Sarah Valentine. Residence, 
No. 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 



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GEORGE CUTHBERT GILLESPIE 

/^^^ILLESPIE entered the Freshman Class, Scientific Depart- 
i jj ment, in 1874, and left College at the end of his Sopho- 

^^^ more. Year. From 1877 to 1894 he followed the calling 
of a merchant in the city of Philadelphia, entering the wholesale 
grocery firm of Gillespie, Zeller & Co., in which firm his father 
was senior partner. In 1886 he was admitted to the firm as a 
partner, continuing in this capacity until the dissolution of the 
firm in 1894. From 1894 to 1897 Gillespie was an editor and 
publisher, being one of the founders and acting as publisher of 
the American Historical Register from 1894 to 1896, and as 
secretary and treasurer of the Historical Register Publishing 
Company during the same years. In the early spring of 1896 
Gillespie relinquished this work to become historical editor of 
the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, originating the Historical 
Department of that newspaper. Later in the same year he re- 
signed this position on the Evening Bulletin to accept a similar 
position on the Evening Telegraph, of the same city, founding the 
Historical Department of that paper. When this department 
on the Telegraph discontinued Gillespie entered the insurance 

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business, joining the firm of Odiorne & Longstreth in October, 
1896. Since that time, in addition to his insurance work, he 
has found time to write articles for magazines and newspapers, 
notably the Sunday Press, of which he is a special correspondent 
on a variety of subjects, chiefly historical, many of which he has 
himself illustrated. 

He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 
member and for five years secretary of the Pennsylvania Society 
of Colonial Wars, at present a manager and for many years the 
secretary of the Bedford Street Mission. In addition to this last- 
named charitable work, he has been active in the work of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He was for many 
years a member of the vestry of St. Elisabeth's Church, and the 
editor and publisher of the Grace Church Guild, a parish paper ; 
and for several years a member of the Local Council of the 
Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and a delegate to the General So- 
ciety. He is at present one of the managers of the Christ 
Church Historical Society. 

He is a member of Delta Phi and of the College Alumni 
Society, and also of the Markham Club of Philadelphia, at one 
time serving as a member of its House Committee. He has 
travelled quite extensively for pleasure, through Europe, Canada, 
and the Bermudas. 

Born, Philadelphia, September 14, 1858 ; parents, Thomas 
Leonard Gillespie and Mary Cuthbert ; married, April 26, 1899, 
Mary Broadbent Buzby. Residence, " Woodverge," Moores- 
town, New Jersey ; business address, No. 427 Walnut Street. 



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JOHN GRAHAM 

/^^ RAH AM matriculated as a member of the Freshman 
^ \ ^ Class, of the Department of Arts, in 1874, but left 

^^*^ soon after College opened. He re-entered in 1875 as 
a Freshman in the Class of 1879, but left during his Sophomore 
Year. He was graduated at the Reformed Presbyterian Theo- 
logical Seminary at Alleghany, Pennsylvania, in i88t, after which 
he assumed the charge of a church at Rochester, New York, 
where he remained until 1889. Since that time he has resided 
in Philadelphia and Alleghany City, Pennsylvania. 

Born, New York City, May 14, 1857 ; parents, Hugh Graham 
and Maria Williams ; married, Emma Mahaffy. Residence, Alle- 
ghany City, Pennsylvania. 



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WILLIAM HENRY GRANT 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 

/^^t RANT entered the Junior Class in the Department of 
^ \ ^ Arts in 1876 as a special student. He spent the first 

^^ p ^ year after leaving College in California, in the office of 
a firm of general agents for merchandise. Returning to Phila- 
delphia, he devoted the year of 1879-80 to literary studies. 
From 1880 to 1886 he followed mercantile and banking pursuits. 
From 1886 to 1888 he was resident in South Carolina, presi- 
dent of a cotton-mill there, and at the same time a member of 
the firm of Grant & Grant, bankers in New York. For the last 
ten years Grant has been active in the foreign missionary enter- 
prises of the world, and in such a field has travelled extensively. 
In the course of these travels he has visited about three hundred 
mission stations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Mexico. He has 
held temporarily the position of assistant secretary of the Board 
of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and for the past 
six years has been secretary of the Conference of Foreign Mis- 
sion Boards in the United States of America and Canada. He 

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is secretary and treasurer of the trustees of the Christian College 
in China, and is acting librarian of the Foreign Mission Library of 
the Presbyterian Church. 

Grant has written several magazine and newspaper articles in 
the line of his special interest and has published also a number 
of articles in leaflet and pamphlet form which have had a wide 
circulation. He is at present compiling a gazetteer of missions. 

He is a member of the General Alumni Society. 

Born, Philadelphia, December 17, 1858; parents, Charles 
Henry Grant and Emma Collier. Residence, Summit, New 
Jersey ; business address, No. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 




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CLIFFORD PREVOST GRAYSON 

/^^ RAYSON entered the Class in 1874 as a Freshman in the 
^Tj Scientific Department, and left College at the close of 

^^^ his Freshman Year. After leaving College he entered 
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he remained 
until 1878. He then went to Paris, where he passed the examina- 
tion at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, entering the atelier of J. L. Ge- 
rome, with whom he studied for three years. He then joined the 
Artists' Colonies at Pont Aven and Concarneau, and later opened 
a studio in Paris. In 1881 he exhibited for the first time at the 
Paris Salon, and from then until 1886 exhibited annually at that 
and other exhibitions. His canvas, "The Fisherman's Family," 
presented at the Salon in 1885, was awarded the Temple Gold 
Medal in 1887 by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 
and purchased for the permanent Temple Collection. In 1886 
Grayson's picture, entitled " Mid-day Dreams," was awarded the 
two thousand dollar grand prize by the American Art Galleries 
in New York. This canvas was afterwards purchased by the 
Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, where it now hangs. 

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Grayson returned from Europe to become director of the Art 
Department of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, which office 
he still fills. He was secretary of the Pennsylvania Committee 
on Fine Arts and Jury Selection for the Columbian Exposition 
in 1893. 

He is a member of the General Alumni Society and of the 
Art Club of Philadelphia, in 1890 serving on its Board of Direc- 
tors. From 1892 to 1895 he was a member of the Pennsylvania 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution. 

Born, Philadelphia, July 14, 1857 ; parents, Frederick William 
Grayson and Mary Mallet-Prevost. Residence, No. 251 South 
Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia ; business address, Drexel Institute, 
Philadelphia. 




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WALTER FERDINAND HALL 

LL.B. 

♦#T^ALL entered College in 1874, as a Freshman in the 
1 1 I Scientific Department, and left at the close of his 
Sophomore Year. He entered the Law School of the 
University in 1878, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws 
in 1880. He practised law in Philadelphia until 1889, and in 
November of that year associated himself in business with his 
father. In 1888 and 1889 Hall travelled quite extensively in 
Great Britain and Continental Europe. In 1893, after the death 
of his father, Hall became a member of the present firm of 
Hall & Carpenter, importers of tin plate and metals. 

He is a member of the General, College, and Law Alumni 
Societies and of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolu- 
tion ; a life member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; a 
life member and Past Master of Philadelphia Lodge, No. 72, Free 
and Accepted Masons ; and a life member and Past High Priest 
of Jerusalem Chapter, No. 3, Royal Arch Masons. He was until 
recently a member of the Racquet Club, the Merion Cricket 

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Club, the Law Association, and the Law Academy, of Philadel- 
phia, and is now a member of the Union League, of the same 
city, and of the St. David's Golf Club. 

Born, Philadelphia, December 4, 1856 ; parents, John Augus- 
tus Rattaux Hall and Caroline Alford ; married, May 18, 1882, 
George Annie Benners Stouffer ; children, Catharine Benners 
and Thomas Gardiner (deceased). Residence, No. 119 North 
Twentieth Street, Philadelphia ; business address, No. 709 Mar- 
ket Street, Philadelphia. 






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FREDERICK FRALEY HALLOWELL 



♦tfT^ALLOWELL entered the Department of Arts in 1874 
II I as a Freshman, and left College at the beginning of 
m *^ his Sophomore Year. In October, 1875, he became a 
clerk in the office of Hallowell & Co., Bankers, in Philadelphia, 
but relinquished this occupation to study law, entering the office 
of Joseph C. Fraley, Esq., as a student in June, 1877. He was 
admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia on June 8, 1880, and practised 
law in that city from that time until October, 1884, when he was 
elected assistant treasurer of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. 
He held this position until 1886, when he was made secretary of 
the company, an office which he retained until February, 1890, 
when he organized the Wayne Title and Trust Company, of which 
organization he acted as secretary and treasurer until June, 1893. 
Since that time he has acted as private secretary (at present with 
the rank of assistant paying teller) to the president of the Western 
Savings Fund Society, of Philadelphia. 

Mr. Hallowell is a member of the General Alumni Society, of 
the University Club, of the Houston Club, a life member and 

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at the present time secretary of the College Boat Club of the 
University, a life member of the Athletic Association of the Uni- 
versity, a member and one of the Board of Governors of the 
Radnor Cricket Club, and a member and one of the governors 
of the St. David's Golf Club. He was also connected with the 
Schuylkill Navy as secretary from 1882 to 1885. 

Born, Philadelphia, March 8, 1859 ; parents, Joshua Long- 
streth Hallowell and Sarah Cresson Fraley; married, July 26, 
1887, Mary Elizabeth Hunter; children, Nancy Sterrett, born 
September 11, 1888; Margaret Hunter, born May 5, 1890; John 
Guy, born July 11, 1892; Frederick Cresson, born September 
29, 1896. Residence, Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; 
business address, No. 1000 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 




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WILLIAM JOHNS HARKNESS 

B.S. (Penna.), A.M., Ph.D. (Illinois Wesleyan University) 

♦tfW^^k ARKNESS matriculated in 1874 as a Freshman in the 
II I Scientific Department. After graduation he spent 
three years studying practical mechanics in the ma- 
chine-shops of William Sellers & Co., of Philadelphia, and then 
for two years worked in the draughting room of Hoff & Fontaine, 
Engine Builders. After this he acted as private secretary for his 
father, an oil merchant. In 1886 he went to West Virginia to 
help in the development of some land which his father had ac- 
quired, and there decided to enter the ministry. He became a 
member of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Parkersburg, since which time he has been 
pastor of churches in the following places in West Virginia : 
W T illiamstown, Elizabeth, New Martinsville, Terra Alta, and 
Weston, and is now connected with the Chapline Street Church 
in Wheeling. Since entering the ministry Harkness has devoted 
considerable time to study, having taken a course at Chautauqua 
and a three years' course in Philosophy at the Illinois Wes- 

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leyan University, receiving from that institution the degree of 
A.M. in 1896 and Ph.D. in 1897. He has published two arti- 
cles, one the " Rise and Fall of Stoic Philosophy," and the other 
"Why Preachers should study Metaphysics." 

Harkness is a member of Phi Kappa Psi and of the Order of 
Free and Accepted Masons. 

Born in Philadelphia, September 12, i860; parents, W. W. 
Harkness and Annie Cousty ; married, June 11, 1891, Eliza- 
beth Vernon ; children, Katharine, Robert Morris, and John 
Cousty. Residence, No. 2318 Chapline Street, Wheeling, West 
Virginia. 






IRecorfc of tbe Clase of 1878, TOnfoersit? of Pennsylvania 




ALAN HALE HARRIS 

A.B. 

+M J>^ ARRIS came into the Class in 1874 as a Freshman in 
II f ^ e Department of Arts. Since graduation he has 
devoted himself to commercial pursuits, for a number 
of years residing and doing business in New York City. At 
present he is treasurer of The Southern Cotton Oil Company 
of Philadelphia. 

He is a member of Delta Psi. 

Born, Germantown, Philadelphia, February 19, 1859; parents, 
Rev. John Andrews Harris, D.D. (Class of 1852), and Almy S. 
Hale ; married Helen Marie Day. Residence, No. 301 Highland 
Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia ; business address, No. 1 20 
South Third Street, Philadelphia. 



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HENRY REED HATFIELD 

Certificate of Proficiency (^Arts), M.D. (Jefferson Medical College) 



♦#W^^ATFIELD matriculated in the Freshman Year in the 
II 1 Department of Arts as a special student, receiving 
a Certificate of Proficiency at the end of the Senior 
Year. After leaving College he studied medicine under the pre- 
ceptorship of his father, Dr. Nathan Lewis Hatfield, entering the 
Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was 
graduated, with the degree of M.D., in 1881. His purpose in 
studying medicine was to qualify himself to become a surgeon in 
the United States navy, but his mother having become an invalid 
shortly before his graduation, he decided that it was his duty to 
remain at home ; and, as he had never intended to become a 
general practitioner, he determined to study law. He therefore 
entered the law office of George W. Biddle, Esq., of Philadel- 
phia, as a student, and was, at the end of the usual course of 
reading and instruction, admitted to the bar in May, 1884. He 
remained in the office of Mr. Biddle as assistant for a year or 

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two, when he became associated with John J. Ridgway, Esq., in 
the practice of his profession, maintaining this connection for 
several years, much of which time, however, he spent abroad, 
principally in Spain, where he devoted himself to the study of 
languages and of diplomatic customs and practices. During this 
period and at other times he travelled extensively upon the conti- 
nent of Europe, visiting also Iceland and Morocco. Since his 
return from Europe, in 1896, he has continuously practised the 
profession of law in Philadelphia. 

Hatfield is a member of Delta Psi, of the St. Anthony's Club 
of Philadelphia and New York, of the Rittenhouse, University, and 
Penn Clubs of Philadelphia, of the Radnor and Rose-Tree Hunts, 
of the Philadelphia Barge Club, of the Philadelphia Gun Club, 
of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and of the Board 
of Directors of the Preston Retreat of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, July 14, 1858 ; parents, Nathan Lewis 
Hatfield, M.D., and Susanna Lewis ; married, November 19, 
1889, Alice Darling Craig (sister of Wilson D. Craig, 'y8 y de- 
ceased). Residence, No. 1825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia; 
business address, No. 723 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 



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REUBEN AUGUSTUS HEATON 

♦# ty^ EATON was admitted in 1874 to the Freshman Class, 
II I Scientific Department, and left College during his 
Sophomore Year. From 1876 to 1885 he was occu- 
pied as a coal operator in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 
He is a member of the College Alumni Society. 
Born, Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1856 ; parents, Reuben 
Ayres Heaton and Mary Carter. Residence, 21 17 Chestnut 
Street, Philadelphia. 



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WILLIAM EDWARD HELME 



B.S. 



♦flfly^k ELME entered the Class in the first term of the Sopho- 
11 I more Year as a student in the Scientific Department. 
After graduation he sailed for Europe with his class- 
men, Norris, Murphy, and Elwell. He and Norris spent about 
fifteen months abroad travelling over Europe and in Egypt and 
Palestine. Upon his return he spent a year at the University, 
taking a post-graduate course in gas analysis under Professor 
Sadder. In 1880 Rowland and Helme went on a trip across 
the plains to the Soda Lakes, San Francisco, and the Yosemite. 
He succeeded his father as a manufacturer of gas-meters in 
Philadelphia, where Helme has always resided. He has made 
three other trips abroad, one in 1874, one in 1882, and one in 
1897, and also visited Mexico on a pleasure trip in 1895. 

Helme is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, of the College Alumni 
Society, of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of the Priestley 
Club of the University, of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons 
of the Revolution, of the St. Andrew's Society, of the American 

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Gas-Light Association, of the Union League of Philadelphia, and 
of the University Club of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, January 26, 1857; parents, William Helme 
and Caroline A. Leinhardt ; married, March 30, 1882, Edith Ben- 
son ; child, Edith, born March 9, 1885. Residence, No. 312 South 
Broad Street, Philadelphia; business address, No. 1339 Cherry 
Street, Philadelphia. 



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CHARLES PHILIP HENRY 

A.B., A.M., M.D. 



♦#W"^ENRY matriculated in the College in 1874 as a student 
II p in the Freshman Class, Department of Arts. After 
leaving College he decided to study medicine, and 
took his degree at the University in that science in 1882, imme- 
diately afterwards becoming a resident physician at the Philadel- 
phia Hospital. In 1882 he was appointed physician to the male 
insane department of the Philadelphia Hospital, and later resi- 
dent physician at Girard College. In 1884 he was commissioned 
assistant surgeon in the United States navy, with the rank of 
ensign, resigning December 20, 1898. He is at present en- 
gaged in the private practice of his profession as a physician 
in Philadelphia, and is also connected with the Faculty of the 
Catholic High School. 

Born in Philadelphia, June 5, 1859 ; parents, Arthur Henry 
and Ann M. Glade ; married, December 29, 1892, Agnes Brady. 
Residence, 1629 Race Street, Philadelphia. 

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JOSIAH OGDEN HOFFMAN 



A.B. 



♦tfT^OFFMAN entered the Class in 1874 as a Freshman in 
II I the Department of Arts. Since graduation he has 
been engaged in business as an iron and steel mer- 
chant in the city of Philadelphia. He is now a member of the 
firm of The Carnegie Steel Company (Limited). 

He is a member of the College and General Alumni Societies, 
of the Union League Club, of the Merion Cricket Club, of the 
University Barge Club, and of the Philadelphia Country Club. 

Born, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, September 
5, 1858 ; parents, George Edward Hoffman and Phcebe Wagner 
White; married, April 19, 1883, Helen Scott Lewis; children, 
John Lewis, Helen Scott, and Charles Fenno. Residence, Villa 
Nova, Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; business address, Har- 
rison Building, Philadelphia. 



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HENRY HOWARD HOUSTON, JR. 

B.S. 

♦tfW"^^ OUSTON entered the Scientific Department in 1874 as 
II w a mem ber of the Freshman Class. In June, 1878, a 
few days after his graduation, he sailed for Europe, in 
company with his uncle, the Rev. Charles R. Bonnell. An extended 
tour was brought to a sad end at Rome, where, in the spring of 
1879, Houston died from an attack of typhoid fever, contracted, 
probably, during the rainy season in northern Africa or Asia Minor. 
Houston Hall, the undergraduate club-house, which is else- 
where described, was erected on the University campus in 1896 
with funds contributed by his parents as a memorial of their son. 
Upon its wall hangs a portrait of Houston, painted by Cecelia 
Beaux, and presented to the University and the Club, which bears 
his name, by members of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, of which 
he had been a member. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 5, 1858 ; parents, Henry Howard 
Houston and Sallie Sherred Bonnell. Died, Rome, Italy, May 

13, 1879. 

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CHARLES BENDER HURLEY 

♦tfjT^URLEY entered College in 1874 as a Freshman in 
II J the Scientific Department, and left at the close of 
his Sophomore Year. From 1877 to 1879 he studied 
at the Philadelphia Polytechnic College. Since completing his 
studies, Hurley has been a civil engineer, in 1879 and 1880 acting 
as assistant engineer on the Northern Pacific Railroad. From 
1880 to 1883 he was employed on the Mexican National Railroad 
in Mexico ; and from 1883 to 1885 he was connected with the 
Baltimore and Ohio and Philadelphia and Reading Railroads. 
From 1885 to 1889 he held the positions of general manager 
and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Natural Gas Company, 
at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and since 1889 he has been general 
manager of the Tacoma Light and Water Company, at Tacoma, 
Washington. 

Born, Philadelphia, April 7, 1859; parents, William Hopkins 
Hurley and Almira Frances Bender ; married Ada McCraken. 
Address, Tacoma, Washington. 



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HENRY ATLEE INGRAM 



LL.B. 



fNGRAM entered the Scientific Department of the College 
in 1874, coming from Swarthmore College, where he was 
a member of the Sophomore Class (1877), in order to 
take the course in mechanical engineering at the University of 
Pennsylvania. He remained in the Towne Scientific School of 
the University for three and a half years, when, having deter- 
mined to study law, he registered as a law student with Francis 
Rawle and later with Charles Gibbons, Jr., Esquires, of the Phila- 
delphia Bar, entering the Law Class of 1881 of the University of 
Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws. Ingram was admitted to the bar of Phila- 
delphia in June of 1881, and, after some time devoted to travel, 
commenced the practice of law in that city, where he has since 
been continuously engaged in his profession. 

For a number of years Ingram was quite earnestly associated 
with the better class of political life in this city, and in 1888 was 
elected secretary of "The Pennsylvania Club," becoming later a 

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member of its Board of Governors and chairman of its Execu- 
tive Committee. With others he took part in the State cam- 
paign of 1890, having been a member of the committee which 
induced Mr. Blaine to reconsider his determination not to enter 
the State of Pennsylvania during the campaign. He was also 
for some time a member of the Executive Committee of his ward 
Republican organization. 

Ingram has also devoted attention to literary work, having 
published, in 1884, "The Life and Character of Stephen Girard, 
Mariner and Merchant," a work which has completed seven 
editions, and remains the standard authority on its subject, being 
the one used in Girard College, Philadelphia. He also published, 
in 1886, "Jean Girard de Montbrun," a biography of Stephen 
Girard's brother and business partner; and later "Illustrated 
Girard College," which has completed a number of editions. 
He has also contributed to various standard publications articles 
in both prose and verse, including a number of translations from 
the French. Some of his verses are republished herein. 

Ingram was one of the earlier members of the University 
Club of Philadelphia, a member of the Lawyers' Club of Phila- 
delphia, of the Sons of Delaware, and of the Knickerbocker and 
New Manhattan Athletic Clubs of New York City. He is now 
a member of the General Alumni Society, of the Philadelphia 
Cycle and Field Club, of the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Asso- 
ciation, and of the Union League of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, February 8, 1858 ; parents, Thomas Rob- 
inson Ingram and Caroline Eugenia Girard Hemphill. Resi- 
dence, No. 106 South Forty-second Street, Philadelphia ; business 
address, No. 912 Crozer Building, Philadelphia. 



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WILLIAM HEMPHILL INGRAM 

*MM NGRAM entered College as a Freshman, in the Depart- 
11 ment of Science, in 1874, and left in the middle of his 
Senior Year. He has been in active business in Phila- 
delphia as a manufacturer since 1880. 

Ingram is a member of the General Alumni Society and of 
the Franklin Institute and the Photographic Society of Philadel- 
phia. 

Born, Philadelphia, October n, 1855; parents, Thomas Rob- 
inson Ingram and Caroline Eugenia Girard Hemphill. Resi- 
dence, No. 106 South Forty-second Street, Philadelphia ; business 
address, No. 106 North Third Street, Philadelphia. 



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WILLIAM ARCHER IRVING 

+MW RVING entered College as a Freshman in the Towne 
II Scientific School in 1874, leaving at the end of his 
Junior Year, since which time he has followed the busi- 
ness of a textile manufacturer, now holding the position of presi- 
dent and treasurer of the textile companies with which he has 
been connected. He is a director of the First National Bank 
of Chester, Pennsylvania. 

Irving is a member of the Philadelphia Geographical Society 
and a member and director of the Penn Club of Philadelphia. 

Born, Chester, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1856; parents, 
James Irving and Christiann Berry; married, January, 1881, Ella 
Lloyd ; children, S. Lloyd and C. Jeannette. Residence and 
business address, Chester, Pennsvlvania. 



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HENRY SCOTT JEFFERYS 

A.B., A.M. 

3EFFERYS entered the Department of Arts as a member 
■* of the Freshman Class, in 1874, leaving at the end of 
his Freshman Year, on account of his father's illness. In 
the fall of 1876, after an absence of a year, he re-entered College 
as a Sophomore, in the Class of 1879, with which class he was 
subsequently graduated. Immediately upon graduation he en- 
tered upon study for the ministry, and was shortly ordained 
deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Subsequently, after 
studying theology at Burlington College, New Jersey, he was ad- 
mitted to the priesthood, and became assistant minister at Old 
Swedes' (Gloria Dei) Church, Philadelphia. In 1881 he went to 
California, where he was for eight years a teacher and missionary, 
acting also during successive periods as assistant minister at St. 
Matthew's Church, San Mateo ; Trinity Church, San Francisco ; 
and St. Paul's Church, Los Angeles. In 1888 and 1889 he was 
associate editor of the Apostolic Churchman. In 1889 he went to 
Japan, where he has since resided, teaching as well as prosecuting 
the work of his ministry. He has been a professor of Latin and 
History in the College of Liberal Arts, at Kogoshima, and at 
present is in charge of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, 
Sendai. In addition to his other work, Jefferys has found time 
to write extensively in Japanese for the newspapers and in the 
form of religious tracts. He is a member of the Japanese Red 
Cross Society. 

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Born, Clarksboro', Gloucester County, New Jersey, June 15, 
1853 ; parents, William Henry Jefferys and Maria Susan Scott ; 
married, October 28, 1884, in San Francisco, Mary Eleanor Beers ; 
children, Mary Constance, Margaret Rebecca (deceased), Doro- 
thea Ida, James Godfrey, and Lewis McKim. Residence, No. 6 
Kata Hira Cho, Sendai, Northeast Japan. 




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WILLIAM NORTON JOHNSON 

A.B., M.D. 



/^^OHNSON entered the Freshman Class, Department of 
"^^ Arts, in 1874. After graduation he took up no serious 
%^/ occupation until September, 1879, when he entered a 
mercantile establishment for three months, long enough to learn 
that a business career was not congenial. In January, 1880, he 
entered upon the study of medicine at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, not matriculating, however, until October of that year, and 
graduating in April, 1883. During the summer of 1883 Johnson 
was unofficially connected with the medical clinic of the Univer- 
sity Hospital, serving also for short terms as resident both at 
that hospital and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In 
October, 1883, he entered upon his duties as resident physician 
of the Germantown Hospital, where he remained for one year. 
Since November, 1884, Johnson has practised medicine in Ger- 
mantown and Philadelphia, being for a part of the time associated 
with the late Dr. Henry D. Harvey, also acting, in association 
with the late Dr. A. S. Roberts, in connection with the ortho- 

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paedic dispensary of the University Hospital. Since 1891 he has 
held the post of visiting surgeon to the Germantown Hospital. 

His literary work has been limited to professional subjects. 

Johnson is a member of the College and General Alumni 
Societies, a director in the Germantown National Bank, a man- 
ager of the Germantown Academy and Concord School, and a 
governor of the Colonial Club. He is also a member of the 
Philadelphia County Medical Society, of the Germantown Cricket 
Club, and of the Philadelphia Cricket Club. 

Born, Germantown, Philadelphia, July 23, 1858; parents, 
Norton Johnson (Class of 1833) and Emily Hoyt ; married, April 
24, 1889, Sarah Trowbridge Bartow; child, Charlotte Trowbridge, 
died August 28, 1891. Residence and business address, No. 
6460 Germantown Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia. 




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CLARENCE KENNEDY 

A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

♦^W^ENNEDY entered College in 1874 as a Freshman in 

11^ the Department of Arts. After graduation he matricu- 

lated in the Law School of the University, receiving 

therefrom the degree of LL.B. in 1881. Since that time he has 

practised law in the city of Philadelphia. 

He is a member of the College Alumni Society, of the Law 
Association, of the Law Academy, and of the Photographic Society 
of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, April 25, 1858 ; parents, Thomas Ken- 
nedy and Martha S. Gendell ; married, June 10, 1891, Jennie M. 
McClintock ; children, Clarence, Jr., and Ruth. Residence, No. 
1737 North Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia; business address, 
No. 1420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 



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HENRY MARTYN KNEEDLER 

A.B., A.M. (Princeton) 

♦^W^NEEDLER matriculated in 1874, and was admitted to 
11^ the Freshman Class, Department of Arts. He left the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1876, at the close of his 
Sophomore Year, entering Princeton College in the following fall. 
He left Princeton in 1878 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 
and in 1881 received from the same institution the degree of 
Master of Arts. He has been occupied as a cotton manufacturer 
since his graduation. 

He is a member of Delta Psi and of the Whig Society of the 
College of New Jersey. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 10, 1857 ; parents, Jesse Sellers 
Kneedler and Catherine Sparhawk ; married, October, 1897, 
Alice Harding. Residence, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia ; busi- 
ness address, Bridesburg, Philadelphia. 



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JOSEPH JONES KNOWLES 

A.B. 

♦tfl^NOWLES entered College as a Freshman in the Depart- 
Ivm ment °f Arts m ^74, and was graduated with his Class 
" ^ in June, 1878. 
Born, Philadelphia, December 26, 1858; parents, George L. 

Knowles and Matilda Jones. 



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PEDRO PASCUAL PERFECTO LACOSTE 

£^tf ACOSTE entered the Scientific Department in the second 
j term of the Freshman Year, 1875, and left at the close 
thereof in June, 1875, in order to assist his uncle, 
Don Pedro Lacoste, of Cuba, in the management of several large 
plantations upon that island. Subsequently he resided for some 
years in Cincinnati, Ohio, and became naturalized as a citizen of 
the United States. While in Cincinnati he was a student in the 
University of Cincinnati. About 1881 he returned to Cuba and 
devoted himself to the business of sugar planting with great suc- 
cess, possessing at the beginning of the last Cuban insurrection 
one of the finest sugar plantations and country places on the 
island, later, unfortunately, completely destroyed by the war. 
During the insurrection Lacoste resided in the city of Havana, 
where he had become a man of affairs and of social distinction. 
He was the " Delegate" in Havana of the Cuban Junta, and 
rendered great assistance to the insurgents by supplying them 
with ammunition and medicines and sending them information of 
the Spanish movements. His position was one of great danger, 

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and it is believed that but for the fact that he was a citizen of 
the United States, he would at one time have suffered imprison- 
ment or death at the hands of the Spanish general, Weyler, who 
strongly suspected his co-operation with the Cubans. On Jan- 
uary 14, 1899, after the evacuation of the island by the Spanish, 
at the termination of the Spanish-American War, Lacoste was 
appointed civil mayor of Havana by the United States govern- 
ment, which had assumed the possession and control of Cuba 
under the terms of the treaty of peace with Spain, and this office 
he still retains. 

Born, Holguin, Cuba, April 18, 1857 ; parents, Pascual La- 
coste and Rafaela Grave de Peralta ; married, May 7, 1885, Lucia 
Lacoste, daughter of his uncle, Pedro Lacoste. Residence, 
Havana, Cuba ; business address, P. O. Box 53, Havana, Cuba. 




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FREDERICK HUMPHREVILLE LEWIS 



B.S. 



£%JTEWIS entered the Freshman Class, Scientific Department, 
II , in 1874. After graduation he was engaged for about 
^^^^ two months as a heliotroper, under Professor Haupt, in 
the Geodetic Survey of Pennsylvania, Whitney being associated 
with him in this work. This position he resigned to enter the 
engineering corps of the Pennsylvania Company at Pittsburg, 
where he remained until the fall of 1881, when he was compelled, 
on account of sickness, to abandon his work for a short period, 
during which he made a short trip to Bermuda. Almost imme- 
diately after his return Lewis accepted a position as inspector 
of bridges and buildings with the Northern Pacific Railroad 
Company, with head-quarters at St. Paul, Minnesota. After con- 
siderable practical experience in this position, in surveying and 
locating short railroad lines, Lewis was appointed acting super- 
intendent of track bridges and buildings of the same company. 
On entering the employ of this company he found that it pos- 
sessed absolutely no road records, and so devoted himself in his 

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new position to organizing a series of yard and road surveys, 
carrying them over the main line from Duluth to Tacoma and 
over branch roads in Minnesota and Dakota. Besides lacking 
road records, the company was also without data in regard to the 
position of the road through various townships and counties. A 
survey of these was also made through Lewis's department. In 
1885 Lewis returned to Philadelphia and secured a position with 
the South Pennsylvania Railroad Company, then in course of 
construction. This railroad enterprise having collapsed, he ac- 
cepted, in 1886, the position of eastern manager of the Pittsburg 
Testing Laboratory at Philadelphia, which office he retained for 
six years, resigning at the end of that time to enter the firm of 
Booth, Garrett & Blair, as a consulting engineer, in charge of 
their laboratory and inspecting department, and commencing 
business for himself as an engineer. 

In 1892 Lewis went abroad, spending a few weeks in Russia. 
In 1897 a second trip to Europe was made, with the special pur- 
pose of studying laboratory methods and the Portland cement 
industry. He inspected a number of plants in England, Belgium, 
Germany, and France, a series of descriptive articles on the Port- 
land cement industries in these places resulting from the trip. 
These articles were published in the New York Engineering 
Record, and are to appear in book form. 

Lewis has written many valuable technical articles and dis- 
cussions for the American Society of Civil Engineers and for 
various technical journals, — the Engineering Magazine, the Engi- 
neering Record, Municipal Engineering, and many other similar 
periodicals. His "Bridge Specifications" have been adopted by 
the standard work on " Modern Framed Structures," by Professor 
J. B. Johnson. He has held the post of non-resident lecturer at 

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the University of Wisconsin. He designed and built the steel 
frame building in Philadelphia for the S. S. White Dental Com- 
pany. 

Lewis is a member of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers, of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, and of the Inter- 
national Association for Tests of Materials, and is a contributor 
to the proceedings of the two first-named societies. He was 
also a charter member of the Engineers' Society of Western 
Pennsylvania, and of the Civil Engineers' Society of St. Paul at 
the time of his residence respectively in Pittsburg and St. Paul, 
and was also for some years a member of the University Club of 
Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, May 14, 1858 ; parents, Henry M. Lewis 
and Frances Amelia Smith ; married, November 2, 1882, Alice M. 
Law ; children, Eleanor Stiles, Henry Martyn, Charles Frederick, 
Margaret Alice, and Marion. Residence, No. 239 West Chelten 
Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia ; business address, No. 406 
Locust Street, Philadelphia. 




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HORACE COOPER LEX 

^%JEX entered the Freshman Class, Department of Arts, as a 
PP j partial student in 1874, and left during his Freshman 
^^** Year. 

Born, Philadelphia, March 7, 1858; parents, Charles Edwin 
Lex (Class of 1831) and Mary Murdock Casey. 



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JOSHUA BERTRAM LIPPINCOTT 



^%fIPPINCOTT entered the Freshman Class in 1S74 as a 
PP , partial course student in the Department of Arts. He 
^^^* passed his examinations for the Sophomore Class, but 
before College opened, in the fall of 1875, decided to leave 
College and enter the publishing house of J. B. Lippincott & Co., 
of which his father was the founder and head. In a few years 
he was admitted to the firm, which has since become incorporated 
as the J. B. Lippincott Company, and of which he has been, since 
1886, the vice-president. 

He is treasurer of the Board of Managers of the Veterinary 
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania ; a director of the 
Bethlehem Iron Works and of the Philadelphia Academy of 
Music ; and also a member of the Union League, Art, Philo- 
biblon, Germantown Cricket, Bachelors' Barge, and Conanicut 
Yacht Clubs. He was a member of the Schuylkill Navy and of 
the Vesper Boat Club in 1879, 1880, and 1881 ; won junior sin- 
gles in the Schuylkill Navy Regatta, June 19, 1880; and was in 
the winning senior gig crew in the regatta of June, 1881. 

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Born, Huntington Valley, Montgomery County, Pennsyl- 
vania, August 24, 1857 ; parents, Joshua Ballinger Lippincott 
and Josephine Craige ; married, April 21, 1885, Joanna Wharton, 
daughter of the founder of the Wharton School of Finance 
and Economy in the University of Pennsylvania ; children, Joseph 
Wharton, Marianna, Sarah, and Bertram. Residence, Logan 
Station, Pennsylvania ; business address, No. 720 Filbert Street, 
Philadelphia. 




IRecorfc of tbe Class of 1878, Tllniversit? of Pennsylvania 



WILLIAM KILBRETH LOWREY 

A.B., LL.B. (Columbia) 

^%C()\YREY entered the Department of Arts in 1874, and left 
. at the close of the Sophomore Year. He afterwards 
^^^^^ pursued his studies abroad, for six months at the 
University of Gottingen, for six months at the University of 
Leipzig, and in England for a year, at the last place passing the 
examinations for the University of Oxford, but not matriculating 
there. Returning to the United States, he entered Columbia 
College, New York, and was president of his class there in 
1882, when he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts. He 
then entered the Department of Law in that college, receiving 
the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1884. 

Lowrey is at present and has been for some time past a 
member of the bar of Chicago. 

Born, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 13, 1858 ; parents, Rev. As- 
bury Lowrey, D.D., and Isabella Guthrie ; Residence, Evanston, 
Illinois ; business address, No. 95 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 
Illinois. 



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HENRY GRATTAN McCARTER 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 



^Wg^L C CARTER entered the Senior Class as a special 
m II j student in chemistry in 1877, and received a Cer- 
^^ ■■•^ tificate of Proficiency in June, 1878. He spent the 
year after graduation in post-graduate work in organic chemistry, 
under Dr. Sadder, at the University, entering his father's mill, the 
Albion Print Works at Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, as chemist, 
in 1880. Here he remained until the works were closed in 1882. 
McCarter spent six months of 1883 in the employ of Eimer & 
Amend, manufacturers of chemical apparatus, New York City, 
as a salesman, later entering the establishment of J. T. Schantz, 
Berlin, Canada, manufacturer of vegetable ivory buttons, as color 
chemist. 

In 1884 McCarter secured a position as a chemist at the John 
Farnum & Co.'s Works at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he 
remained until 1896, when Messrs. Pickhardt & Kuttroff sent for 
him to join their force in New York City as demonstrator of their 
dye-stuffs. This position took McCarter through all the milling 



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territory of the United States. In 1897, as the superintendent of 
the John Farnum & Co.'s Works felt the need of an assistant, he 
was recalled, and is at present filling this position. 

McCarter has published several hand-books on subjects con- 
nected with his work, among them being "The Manufacture and 
Coloring of Vegetable Ivory," "The Renaissance of Madder," 
"The Influence of Lead Salts in Alumina Mordants for Turkey- 
Red." 

McCarter is a member of Phi Kappa Psi and of the Hamilton 
Club. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 13, 1856; parents, James McCar- 
ter and Sarah Elizabeth Coolidge ; married, November, 1892, 
Elizabeth McGovern ; children, Rosemary, Elizabeth, and James 
Coolidge. Residence, Lancaster, Pennsylvania ; business ad- 
dress, Conestoga Mills, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 




IRecorfc of tbe Class of 1878, University of Pennsylvania 





EDWARD GARRETT McCOLLIN 



A.M., A.B., LL B. 



^■M^kcCOLLIN entered College in 1874 as a Freshman in 
1 II 1 ^ e Department of Arts. Immediately upon gradu- 
^*^ ation he began the study of the law in the office of 
Joseph R. Rhoads, Esq., matriculating, in the fall of 1878, in the 
Law School of the University, from which he was duly graduated 
in June, 1880. In the same month he was admitted to the bar of 
Philadelphia, and has practised law in that city since that time. 
In 1 88 1, when the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon 
those of the Class who qualified by the presentation of satisfac- 
tory theses, he was selected to deliver the Master's Oration, but 
was unable to perform this duty because of serious illness. 

During his studies in the Law School, McCollin continued his 
membership in the University Glee Club, where he had been 
active during his course in College, and of which he acted as 
leader during the seasons of 1878-79 and 1879-80. In April, 
1879, ne wrote the music of "Ben Franklin, Esq.," to words by 
Charles I. Junkin, 'yy. McCollin also continued his studies in 

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the theory of music and composition in the Department of Music 
of the University, receiving therefor a certificate from the College 
Faculty at the commencement in June, 1879. From 1880 to 
1890 he was organist and choir-master at the Central Presby- 
terian Church, Philadelphia. He joined The Orpheus Club, of 
the same city, in 1880, of which he is still a member, as also are 
Church and Rowland. 

At various times since graduation he has acted upon the 
Advisory Committee of Alumni, selected to assist the Glee and 
Musical Clubs, and in 1896 was the chairman of the committee 
appointed by the Glee Club to edit and publish the first edition 
of " Pennsylvania Songs." In 1893 ne wrote, for the Glee Club, 
to words by E. W. Mumford, '89, the music of "The Pennsyl- 
vania Girl," which has been received by the undergraduates into 
the body of University songs. 

The selection of " Adeste Fideles" as the tune for the Univer- 
sity Hymn, and of the Russian National Anthem as the tune for 
a secular hymn for the University's use was made by Church and 
McCollin in 1895. Words for the former were written by Dr. 
Thomas Wistar, '63, and for the latter by Mr. E. M. Dilley, '97 ; 
and the two hymns have since been used at commencement and 
other public functions of the University. McCollin has written 
a number of songs and choruses for male, female, and mixed 
voices, sacred and secular, which have been published by Schir- 
mer, Ditson, Boner, and others under the nom de plume of Garrett 
Colyn. 

He has been, since graduation, with the exception of two 
years, a member of the Board of Managers of the Society of the 
Alumni (of the College) ; and was one of the organizers, in 1895, 
of the General Alumni Society, being a member of its first Board 

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of Directors. From 1887 to ^91 he was treasurer and a mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association of the 
University, serving for three years of this time on the Rowing 
Committee. 

McCollin is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, of the University 
Club of Philadelphia, of the Houston Club, of the Society of the 
Alumni (of the College), of the Alumni Society of the Law De- 
partment, of the General Alumni Society, and of the Manuscript 
Music Society of Philadelphia. He is one of the directors of 
the Merchants' Trust Company and of the Musical Fund Society 
of Philadelphia, and secretary of the vestry of the Memorial 
Church of St. Paul, Overbrook. He has also been a member 
of the Manuscript Music Club of New York, of the Art Club 
of Philadelphia, and of the Faculty Club of the University. 
He was for several years one of the Committee of Management 
of the Central Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association 
of Philadelphia, and is at present a member of the Advisory 
Board of the University Branch of the same Association. In 
1895 McCollin acted as chief marshal at the first celebration of 
University Day (February 22) at the Academy of Music. He 
was also a member of the first Commencement Week Committee, 
in 1894. 

Born, Baltimore, Maryland, July 6, 1858; parents, Philip 
Garrett McCollin and Asenath Lewis Bromley ; married, October 
28, 1 89 1, Alice Graham Lanigan ; children, Frances, born Octo- 
ber 24, 1892, and Katharine Williams, born February 5, 1894. 
Residence, Overbrook, Pennsylvania; business address, No. 514 
Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 



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MICHAEL McCUE 

^■M^kcCUE entered College in 1874 as a student in the 
1 II 1 Scientific Department, and left at the close of his 
^^ ■■^^ Freshman Year, since which time he has been en- 
gaged as a telegraph operator and railroad station agent. Since 
1 890 he has held the position of train despatcher with the Barclay 
Railroad Company, a branch of the Lehigh Valley system. 

He is a member of the General Alumni Society. 

Born, Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, July 20, 
1854; parents, Patrick McCue and Bridget McNulty. Resi- 
dence and business address, Towanda, Pennsylvania. 



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harry Mcdowell 

A.B., A.M. 

^iiCcDOWELL matriculated in 1874 as a Freshman in 
W II j the Department of Arts. His degree of Master of 
^^ Arts was received from his Alma Mater in 1881. 
Immediately after graduation he became a candidate for Holy 
Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of New 
Jersey, and was ordained as deacon in St. Mary's Church, Bur- 
lington, on September 12, 1880. He was graduated at the Gen- 
eral Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
New York City in 1881, and was transferred to the diocese of 
northern New Jersey (now Newark) on October 17, 1881, where 
he was ordained priest. 

He was assistant minister at the Church of the Ascension in 
New York City during 1880 and 1881 ; of St. Mark's Church, 
Orange, New Jersey, from 1881 to 1883 ; and of St. Mark's 
Church, Philadelphia, from 1883 to 1886. He was rector at St. 
John's Church, Chew's Landing, New Jersey, from December 14, 
1886, until May 7, 1887. He served as assistant at the Church 

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of the Annunciation, Philadelphia, from 1887 to 1889, and was 
recalled as rector by St. John's Church, Chew's Landing, New 
Jersey, in 1889. In January, 1890, he was called to be rector of 
Trinity Church, Asbury Park, New Jersey, and had just entered 
upon his duties in that parish when he was seized with influenza 
and died after a few days' illness. 

Bishop Scarborough writes of McDowell as follows : " On 
January 26, 1890, I read the service for the burial of the dead 
over his mortal part in St. John's Church, Camden. And so 
ended the brief life and ministry of a young man who was ex- 
traordinarily gifted and wonderfully fitted for his work. I knew 
him from his boyhood and never found anything in him to blame. 
He was a good scholar, a rare musician, and a man of clear head 
and good judgment." 

In collaboration with the Rev. H. G. Batterson, D.D., he pub- 
lished a book on church music, "A Manual of Plain Song for the 
American Church," which has attained considerable celebrity. 

He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. 

Born, Camden, New Jersey, July 24, 1855 ; parents, Thomas 
McDowell and Mary Baker Adams ; married Julia Joy Farr ; 
children, two; died, Asbury Park, New Jersey, January 19, 1890. 




IRecotft of tbe (Haas of 1878, ^University of Pennsylvania 




EDWARD SHIPPEN McILVAINE 

Certificate of Proficiency (Arts), M.D. 

^■J^oILVAINE entered the Department ot Arts as a 
W II j Freshman in 1874, and at commencement, 1878, 
^^ ■■^^ received a Certificate of Proficiency as a special 
student in Arts. In the fall of 1878 he entered the Department 
of Medicine of the University, was graduated therefrom in 1881, 
and practised medicine in Philadelphia for a few years, when 
he was compelled to go to Colorado on account of ill health, 
succumbing to his malady in Denver, 1886. 

He won the intercollegiate championship in the graduate 
mile-walk at Mott Haven in 1879. 

Born, Philadelphia, February, 28, 1858 ; parents Alexander 
Murray Mcllvaine (Class of 1832) and Mary Cowperthwaite 
Olden ; died, Denver, Colorado, June 10, 1886. 



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HENRY ALBERT MacKUBBIN 



A.B. 



Mm j^Ac K U B B I N entered the Freshman Class of the De- 
W II j partment of Arts in 1874. After leaving College he 
m ** entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New 
Jersey, but was compelled by ill health, at the end of his first 
year there, to take a year's rest, during which time he was 
engaged in private teaching. Returning to the Seminary later, 
he was graduated therefrom in 1882, and was licensed to preach 
by the Presbytery of Philadelphia North. On June 1, 1882, he 
was ordained to the ministry, and the same day was installed 
pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. 
MacKubbin continued in the pastorate of this church until March 
1, 1886, when he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church 
at Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where he remained for nine years. 
From April, 1895, to May 1, 1898, he was pastor of Westminster 
Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, which charge he re- 
signed in the spring of 1898 to spend a half-year in European 

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travel. This was MacKubbin's second trip abroad, as he had 
spent three months in Europe during 1889. Immediately after 
his return from abroad MacKubbin was called to the pastorate 
of the First Presbyterian Church at Lambertville, New Jersey, 
where he is at present. 

MacKubbin has been very active in church work, having held 
the positions of moderator of the Chester Presbytery, moderator 
of the Elizabeth Presbytery, commissioner from the Chester Pres- 
bytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, held 
at Washington, D. C, 1894, at which the famous " Briggs Case" 
was settled, and having been frequently chosen to represent his 
Presbytery at the Synod. 

He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. 

Born, Philadelphia, September 2, 1856 ; parents, Charles 
MacKubbin and Teresa Marie Newlande ; married, April 19, 
1883, Susan Adelaide Peters; children, Mary Elizabeth, born 
December 24, 1890, and Donald Newlande, born Febuary 16, 
1894. Residence, Lambertville, New Jersey. 




IRecorfc of tbe Class of 1878, ^University of Pennsylvania 




SAMUEL AUGUSTUS MARTIN 

^■■^k ARTIN entered the Freshman Class of the College, 
W II j Scientific Department, in 1874, and left during his 
^^ ■■^^ Sophomore Year. He then entered Pierce's Busi- 
ness College of Philadelphia, and after graduation therefrom 
entered the employ of John B. Stetson & Co., Hat Manufac- 
turers, of the same city, with whom he remained for two years. 
After leaving Stetson & Co., Martin had three years' experience 
as a sales agent, followed by his entrance upon a business career 
in partnership with his father. This venture proving not entirely 
successful, Martin, in 1886, entered the employ of the Midvale 
Steel Works as a clerk, and since that time has remained in 
the employ of that company, and by successive promotions has 
attained to his present position of "engineer of tests." 

Martin's principal interest, outside of business has been the 
National Guard of Pennsylvania, which he joined in the fall of 
1880, entering the First Regiment as a private in Company K on 
October 4 of that year. He was appointed corporal in the same 

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company on June 8, 1882 ; sergeant on June 30, 1883 ; and first 
sergeant on March 4, 1885. At Martin's own request he was 
reduced to the ranks on February 7, 1886, being reappointed 
corporal on June 30, 1889, and reappointed sergeant on June 17, 
1 89 1. He was elected second lieutenant on July 20, 1891, 
serving in this capacity during the Homestead riots in July, 1892. 
He was re-elected to this position on July 20, 1896. At the 
outbreak of the Spanish War, when the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania was reorganized, the First Regiment of the Guard 
becoming the First Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Martin 
was commissioned as a second lieutenant therein May 12, 1898, 
receiving his promotion to the first lieutenantship on July 1, 1898. 
While at Chickamauga Park Martin acted at various times as 
battalion adjutant and ordnance officer of his regiment. 

He was detailed as acting quartermaster in the medical de- 
partment, and assigned to duty with the reserve hospital of the 
First Army Corps on July 12, 1898, sailing with the division from 
Newport News, Virginia, with the army of invasion of the island 
of Porto Rico, on the United States transport " Massachusetts." 
He returned to the United States from Porto Rico on sick leave 
on September 26, 1898, rejoining his regiment in time to be 
mustered out, just a month later, on October 26, 1898. Martin 
secured a seven-days' leave from his regiment in June, 1898, 
returning to Philadelphia to be married. 

Born, Philadelphia, July 11, 1858; parents, William Satchell 
Martin and Mary E. Winchester; married, June 15, 1898, 
Rebecca Kenworthy. Residence, No. 4441 North Uber Street, 
Philadelphia ; business address, Midvale Steel W r orks, Nicetown, 
Philadelphia. 



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CHARLES FREDERICK MOORE 

B.S. 

^BM^OORE entered College in 1874 as a Freshman in the 
W II j Scientific Department. Since leaving College he 
^^ has been occupied in the United States Coast and 
Geodetic Survey, as a railroad draughtsman, and as a sanitary, 
hydraulic, and railroad engineer. He has been in charge of 
various railroad surveys, made for location and construction, and 
has occupied the position of engineer of maintenance of way 
and structures of the Pennsylvania and Northwestern Railroad 
Company. 

Moore is a member of the College and General Alumni 
Societies, and of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, September 28, 1855 ; parents, Charles 
Deal Moore and Annie Thompson Millick ; married Louisa Ma- 
tilda Steck. Residence and business address, Bellwood, Blair 
County, Pennsylvania. 

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JOHN HASSINGER MURPHY 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 

^W^URPHY entered the Freshman Class in 1874, and 
W II j received a Certificate of Proficiency in mining en- 
^^ gineering in June, 1878. After graduation he spent 
several months travelling through Europe with Helme, Norris, 
and Elwell. On his return he became a civil engineer, holding 
the successive positions of assistant supervisor, supervisor, and 
assistant engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad, entering the 
service of that company in 1879 and remaining in its employ 
until February, 1894. He afterwards opened an office as con- 
sulting engineer at Reading, Pennsylvania. 

He was a member of Delta Psi and of the College Alumni 
Society. 

Born, Philadelphia, December 25, 1857 ; parents, John Gam- 
ble Murphy, M.D. (Class of 1842, College and Department of 
Medicine), and Eliza Hassinger ; married, December 6, 1883, 
Anna Mahony Rutter ; died, Wilmington, Delaware, December 
25, 1897, on the fortieth anniversary of his birth. 

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WILLIAM HENRY NORMS 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 



♦tfl/^ORRIS entered College in 1874 as a Freshman in the 
11*1 Scientific Department, and received a Certificate of 
Proficiency in mechanical engineering in June, 1878. 
After graduation he spent ten months in foreign travel with 
Helme, visiting the principal cities of Europe and some parts of 
Egypt and Syria. In the fall of 1879 he and Rutter commenced 
professional life in Philadelphia as "expert mechanical engineers, 
draughtsmen, and solicitors of patents." Two years later Norris 
decided to try stock-broking as a career, and after nearly three 
years' experience in this work returned to his original profession, 
that of a mechanical engineer. In 1882 he again went abroad. 
He was employed by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in 
various positions during the Electrical Exhibition of 1884 and the 
Novelties Exhibition of 1885, and also during a series of tests of 
electrical lamps and dynamo machinery conducted by the Institute 
during the winter and spring of 1884-85. In the spring of 1886 



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Norris became instructor in the mechanical school of the Spring 
Garden Institute of Philadelphia, which position he held until 
June, 1888. He then entered the employ of the Edison Electric 
Company of Philadelphia, and was inspecting engineer of their 
central station — then building at Ninth and Sansom Streets — until 
its completion, and also of the machinery during its installation, 
after which he was placed in charge of the station. He resigned 
from the Edison Company in September, 1889, entering the 
employ of the Franklin Sugar Refinery of the same city almost 
immediately. In the spring of 1890 Norris went to Stamford, 
Connecticut, with the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, 
where he remained until September of that year, when he re- 
signed to accept a position with the firm of William Sellers 81 Co., 
of Philadelphia, as superintendent of their iron foundry. He has 
recently terminated his connection with Sellers & Co., in order 
to accept the position of Mechanical Engineer with the Pennsyl- 
vania Manufacturing Light and Power Company of Philadelphia. 

Norris is a member of Delta Psi, the College Alumni Society, 
the Franklin Institute, and the University Club. 

Born, Philadelphia, May 10, 1857 ; parents, William Norris 
and Anne Gilmour ; married, June 22, 1881, Juanita Maria Es- 
trada; children, William Henry, born February, 1883, possessor 
of the class cup, and Edward Wentworth, born October, 1888. 
Residence, No. 3237 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia ; business 
address, northeast corner Tenth and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia. 



IRecorfc of tbe Class of 1878, lllnivereit? of Pennsylvania 





JOHN CURTIS PATTERSON 



-jJ^^ATTERSON entered the Towne Scientific School of the 
II j University as a Freshman in 1874, and left during his 
IM. Senior Year. He entered upon the active pursuit of 

his calling as a civil engineer in January, 1878, acting as rodman 
and levelman on the engineer corps of the Madeira and Mamore 
Railroad in Brazil, South America, for a year. In April, 1879, he 
took the position of levelman on the engineer corps of the resi- 
dent engineer of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, with 
head-quarters at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he remained 
until August, 1880, when he became transitman on the assistant 
engineer's staff of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Paoli, Pennsyl- 
vania. Here he remained only three months, when he went to 
Colima, Mexico, where he worked as rodman, levelman, transit- 
man, and division engineer of the Mexican National Construction 
Company (the Manzanillo and Laredo Railway Company) until 
May, 1882. Patterson then returned to the United States, and 
in August, 1882, became assistant engineer of surveys for the 
Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 

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remaining there until March, 1883. A month later he was made 
division roadmaster on the Lebanon Division of the Philadelphia 
and Reading Railroad, holding this position for two years. From 
April, 1885, to October, 1887, Patterson was secretary and 
treasurer of the Philadelphia Drainage Construction Company 
(Limited), leaving this position to become assistant engineer in 
the chief engineer's office of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- 
road at Philadelphia. In November, 1888, he became assistant 
chief engineer and later chief engineer of the Poughkeepsie 
Bridge and Central New England and Western Railroad. In 
May, 1892, he became engineer in charge of the construction of 
the Quaker City Mortar Company's plant in Philadelphia, this 
work continuing until January, 1893. From February, 1893, to 
November of the same year Patterson was assistant chief engi- 
neer of surveys for the Baltimore and Cumberland Railroad at 
Hancock, Maryland, and since May, 1894, has been chief engineer 
of the Pittsburg and Eastern Railroad at Mahaffey, Clearfield 
County, Pennsylvania. 

He is a member of the General Alumni Society, of Delta Psi 
and its graduate societies, the St. Anthony's Clubs of Philadelphia 
and New York, of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of the 
Engineers' Club, of the Philadelphia Gun Club, of the German- 
town Cricket Club, of the Huntington Valley Country Club, and 
of the Devon Golf Club. 

Born, Germantown, July 12, 1857 ; parents, Joseph Patterson 
and Lavinia Horstmann ; married, April 29, 1886, Charlotte Dal- 
las Morrell. Residence, No. 1230 Spruce Street, Philadelphia; 
business address, No. 204 Betz Building, Philadelphia. 



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THOMAS BARCLAY PRICHETT 



A.B., A.M. 



-WM^^RICHETT entered the Freshman Class, Department of 
II j Arts, in 1874. His Master's degree was conferred in 
H 1 88 1. Though graduating in 1878, it was not until the 

end of 1879 that Prichett decided what should be the nature of 
his avocation. He then determined to fit himself for a mercantile 
career, and after a course in a business college entered the office 
of Messrs. Arthur Hagen & Co., wholesale tobacco merchants, of 
Philadelphia, with whom he remained for ten years. On March 
15, 1890, Prichett, finding that his liking for a commercial career 
lessened with his experience in it, associated himself with his 
brother, W. C. Prichett, Jr., and Adrian Worthington Smith, who 
were then practising the profession of architecture in Philadelphia, 
under the firm name of Smith & Prichett. On July 1 of the same 
year the firm became W. C, Jr., & T. B. Prichett. 

Prichett has been active in politics on independent lines. He 
was for some time secretary of the Eighth Ward Independent 

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Republican Association of Philadelphia, and has been recording- 
secretary and a member of the Board of Managers of the Mu- 
nicipal League since its inception, besides occupying the same 
offices in the ward organization of the same association. 

Prichett is a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the 
American Institute of Architects, of the University Club of Phil- 
adelphia, and formerly of the Belmont Cricket Club of the same 
city. He is a vestryman of St. Elisabeth's Church, and was for 
some time secretary of that body and a delegate from it to the 
Protestant Episcopal Convention of the diocese of Pennsylvania. 
He served for some years upon the Executive Committee of the 
South Philadelphia Centre, University Extension Society. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 22, 1857 ; parents, William 
Cresson Prichett (Class of 1848) and Meeta Theresa Patrullo. 
Residence, Llanerch, Pennsylvania ; business address, No. 424 
Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 




IRecort) of tbe Class of I878 t T^mversity of Pennsylvania 





CHARLES FITHIAN REEVES 

f-A^^^EEVES entered the Freshman Class in the Department 
■ ■% of Arts in 1874, and left at the close of the Sophomore 
Year. After leaving College he followed mercantile 
pursuits until 1885. Since that time he has been assistant secre- 
tary of the Cumberland Mutual Fire Insurance Company of 
Bridgeton, New Jersey. 

Reeves is secretary of the Bridgeton Hospital Association, 
chairman of the Building and Property Committee of the Board 
of Education, a member and, since April, 1897, tne president of 
the Union Republican League of Bridgeton, and also a member 
and president of the Bridgeton Philatelic Association. 

Born, Belvidere, New Jersey, April 13, 1856; parents, Rev. 
Henry Reeves, D.D. (Princeton), and Sarah Jane Kennedy ; mar- 
ried, December 10, 1884, Clara Elizabeth Hoffman ; children, 
Edmund Hoffman, Henry Kennedy, and Charles F., Jr. (the 
last-named deceased). Residence, Bridgeton, New Jersey ; busi- 
ness address, P. O. Box 155, Bridgeton, New Jersey. 

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JAMES RENWICK RODGERS 

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+ id^% ODGERS entered College as a Freshman in the Depart- 
r\ ment of Arts in 1874, and left at the close of his 
Sophomore Year. Entering upon a business career, 
he for a period of a few years acted in several capacities, in- 
cluding confidential clerk for a large manufactory, and in 1884 
succeeded to his father's business, established for over sixty years 
(The James B. Rodgers Printing Company). He has printed the 
works of some of the most noted authors on history, art, the- 
ology, medicine, and law. He established a publishing depart- 
ment in connection with his printing works, and published a 
series of seventy-eight volumes of standard classics. Rodgers 
translated and published " Un Philosophe sous les toits" ("An 
Attic Philosopher"), by Emile Souvestre. He has travelled ex- 
tensively north, east, and south. 

Rodgers is a member of the Merion Cricket Club and a mem- 
ber of the first class, by inheritance, of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion, his father having been one of its original members. 

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Born, Philadelphia, December 27, 1858 ; parents, James Boyer 
Rodgers, of New York City, and Mary J. MacBride ; married, 
April 6, 1893, Louise Willard ; children, Louise Willard and 
Isobel Willard. Residence, Merion, Pennsylvania ; business 
address, No. 52 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia. 



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WILLIAM LEE ROWLAND 



B.S. 



♦A^^^ OWL AND entered College as a Sophomore in the Scien- 
■ ^ tific Department in October, 1875, after a year's work 
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After 
graduation he remained at the University for two years as assistant 
in the Chemical Department. In 1880 he was appointed to a 
fellowship in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University and was also 
appointed expert special agent for the chemical industry in the 
tenth census of the United States. In this latter work Rowland 
visited many chemical works throughout the country, as well as 
soda, salt, and sulphur deposits as far west as the Pacific coast. 
A result of this trip, in which he was accompanied by Helme, 
was the government publication in 1881 of Rowland's "Report 
on the Manufacture of Chemical Products and Salt in the United 
States." Since 1881 Rowland has been chemist and superin- 
tendent of the chemical works of Henry Bower & Son and their 
successors, the Ammonia Company of Philadelphia, and in this 
latter connection spent six months in California, examining 

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chrome iron deposits, and in 1882-83 several months in Great 
Britain, working on the extraction of cyanogen from coal gas, 
resulting in a process patented in 1891. 

Rowland is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, of the College 
Alumni Society, of the Union League of Philadelphia, of the 
Orpheus Club of Philadelphia, of the Priestley Club of the 
University, of which he was the first president ; of the Houston 
Club of the University, of the New England Society of Pennsyl- 
vania, of the American Chemical Society, of the Society of 
Chemical Industry of Great Britain, and of the American Gas 
Light Association. 

Born, Springfield, Massachusetts, December 19, 1855 ; parents, 
Levi Perkins Rowland and Eunice Hall Lee ; married, January 31, 
1883, Clario Hobart ; children, Ruth, born January 13, 1892, 
Edmund, born September 9, 1897, and Hobart, born December 
12, 1898. Residence, No. 4800 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia; 
business address, Twenty-ninth Street and Gray's Ferry Road, 
Philadelphia. 






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AUGUSTUS JANNEY RUDDEROW 



A.B., A.M., LL.B. 



^A^^^UDDEROW entered the Freshman Class, Department 
■^ of Arts, in 1874. After graduation he matriculated as 
a student in the Department of Law of the University, 
receiving, in 1880, the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1881 he 
received also the degree of Master of Arts. Since 1880 Rud- 
derow has practised law in the city of Philadelphia. He acted 
as Class secretary from 1878 to 1898. 

He is a member of the College Alumni Society, and was a 
vice-president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, August 11, 1857; parents, Rev. Joel 
Rudderow (Class of 1845) an< ^ Catharine Mary Janney. Resi- 
dence, No. 1832 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 



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STEPHEN FOTTERALL RUSSELL 

♦A^^^ US SELL entered the Freshman Class in the Department 
w\ of Arts in 1874, and left during the second term of his 
Sophomore Year. From 1876 to 1880 he resided in 
Philadelphia, acting as clerk in a wholesale cotton house. In 
1880 he went to New York City, where he established himself 
in business as a member of the New York Cotton Exchange, 
maintaining his connection therewith until his death in 1895. 

He was a member of the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, New 
York ; of the Brooklyn Whist Club, of the Atlantic Yacht Club, 
and of Brooklyn Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. 

Born, Philadelphia, June 22, 1858 ; parents, Winfield Scott 
Russell and Catharine Summers Fotterall ; married Sophia West 
Levis; died March 1, 1895. 



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CHARLES ALFRED RUTTER 

Certificate of Proficiency (Science) 



♦^W^ UTTER entered the Freshman Class in 1874 as a regu- 
■ r% lar student in the Scientific Department. In 1877 he 
became a special student in mechanical engineering, 
receiving, at the end of the course in 1878, a Certificate of Pro- 
ficiency. Since leaving College he has lived in Philadelphia and 
vicinity, following the profession of solicitor of patents and me- 
chanical engineer. He is a most capable yachtsman, having 
spent much of his leisure time since early boyhood on the bays 
and rivers of the eastern part of the United States. He has 
travelled for business and pleasure through several of the South- 
ern States. 

He is a member of the College Alumni Society, of Delta Psi, 
of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, of the Historical Society 
of Pennsylvania, of the Military Service Institution of New York, 
and of the University Club of Philadelphia. He was for many 
years connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and 

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has held the following rank in its service : first lieutenant and 
inspector of rifle practice in the Second Regiment Infantry, 
National Guard of Pennsylvania, May, 1891 ; first lieutenant 
and quartermaster in the same regiment, 1895. He enlisted 
in the service of the United States during the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War, 1898, and held rank as follows: first lieutenant and 
quartermaster in the Second Regiment Infantry, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers. 

Born, Philadelphia, October 30, 1857 ; parents, Clement 
Stocker Rutter, Jr., and Anna Jackson Mahony. Residence, 
Holly Oak, Delaware ; business address, No. 411 Walnut Street, 
Philadelphia. 




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JOHN MORIN SCOTT 



SCOTT entered the Freshman Class, Department of Arts, 
in 1874, and left during his Senior Year. He studied 
law, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia on 
November 12, 1881, since which time he has been in active legal 
practice in that city. He was elected a member of the Eighth 
Section School Board, serving for two consecutive terms. He 
was elected to the House of Representatives of the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania in 1887, and again in 1889. He was not 
a candidate in 1891, but was re-elected in 1893 to represent the 
district which he had previously represented. He was again 
re-elected in 1895 an d again in 1896. In November, 1898, he 
was elected to the Senate of the State. 

Scott is a life member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of 
the Revolution. 

Born, Philadelphia, September 19, 1858 ; parents Lewis Allaire 
Scott (Class of 1838) and Frances Anna Wistar ; married Anna 
F. Barker. Residence, No. 118 South Eighteenth Street, Phila- 
delphia ; business address, No. 623 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

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RICHARD BOWDEN SHEPHERD 

A.B., A.M. 

SHEPHERD matriculated as a student in the Department 
of Arts in 1874, coming in with the Freshman Class. 
After graduation he entered the Berkeley Divinity 
School at Middletown, Connecticut, graduating therefrom in 
1 88 1. He was ordained as deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in 1881, and as priest in 1882. During the years of 1881 
and 1882 he was assistant and from 1882 to 1885 rector of Trinity 
Church, Oxford, Philadelphia; from 1885 to 1892 rector of the 
Church of the Advent, Philadelphia; and since 1893 rector of 
Christ Church, Riverton, New Jersey. In addition to his parish 
work in Riverton, Shepherd is an examining chaplain of the 
diocese of New Jersey, and president of the Free Library Asso- 
ciation of Riverton, and also of the local centre for university 
extension work, both of which organizations he was in part 
instrumental in forming. He is also a trustee of St. Mary's 
Hall and Burlington College, Burlington, New Jersey. 

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Shepherd published the "Semi-centennial History of the 
Church of the Advent," Philadelphia, in 1890. 

He is a member of the College and General Alumni Societies. 

Born, Yonkers, New York, September 22, 1858 ; parents, 
Solomon Shepherd and Frances Maria Henop ; married, June 
14, 1888, Rebecca McMurtrie Wain. Residence, Riverton, New 
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ISAAC SCOTT SMYTH, JR. 

A.B., A.M. 

SMYTH was admitted to the Freshman Class in 1874 as a 
student in the Department of Arts. Since leaving Col- 
lege his pursuits have been entirely mercantile. In the 
latter part of 1878 he entered the employ of Young, Smyth, 
Field & Co., wholesale notion merchants, of Philadelphia, of 
which firm his father was a member. 

He is a member of the College Alumni Society. 
Born, Philadelphia, December 1, 1859 ; parents, Isaac Scott 
Smyth and Katharine Mason; married, January, 1888, Eliza F. 
Carrigan ; children, Isaac Scott and Gordon Seymour Carrigan. 
Residence, No. 277 Harvey Street, Germantown, Philadelphia; 
business address, Tenth and Market Streets, Philadelphia. 



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WILLIAM HENRY STETLER 

A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

STETLER entered the Department of Arts as a Freshman 
in 1874. After graduation he matriculated as a student 
in the Law School of the University, from which he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws with the Class of 1880. 
He was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 1880, and practised 
law in that city until his death in 1887. 

In 1882 he was treasurer, and in 1883 vice-president, of the 
Law Academy of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, April 27, 1858 ; parents, John Geyer 
Stetler, M.D., and Ann Maria Schively ; died near Grantville, 
Georgia, on train returning to Philadelphia, May 8, 1887. 



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JOHN ALEXANDER TEAZ 

^^^^EAZ entered the Freshman Class, Department of Arts, 
4 1 in 1874, and died while in college, at the close of the 
^^^ Sophomore Year. 
Born, Philadelphia, June 16, 1854; parents, John Teaz and 

Elizabeth Pearson; died, Philadelphia, June 11, 1876. 



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AUGUSTUS THOURON 

'^^^^HOURON entered College as a Freshman in the Scientific 

£ I Department in 1874, leaving at the close of his Fresh- 

^^^ man Year to go into business as a stock-broker. For 

a number of years prior to his death in 1899 he was a member 

of the firm of N. Thouron & Co., of Philadelphia. 

He was a member of the College and General Alumni 

Societies, of the Houston Club, and of the Philadelphia Club. 
Born, Philadelphia, March 8, 1857 ; parents, Elisha Henry 

Thouron and Margaret Murphy; died, Philadelphia, May 21, 

1899. 



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THOMAS EARLE WHITE 



^H^T^^f HITE entered the Sophomore Class, Scientific De- 
11 jL 1 partment, in 1875, anc ^ ^t at tne close of his 
^^ ^^ Sophomore Year to begin the study of law in 

the office of the Hon. George M. Dallas. He was a student 
in the Law Department from 1876 to 1878, and since that time 
has practised his profession in his native city. 

He has served as one of the Board of Governors of the Art 
Club of Philadelphia, been president of the Athletic Club of the 
Schuylkill Navy, and is also a member of the Pen and Pencil 
Club, of the Lawers' Club, of the Philadelphia Barge Club, of the 
" Wheel," and of various other social organizations of Philadelphia. 

Born, Philadelphia, November 18, 1857 ; parents, Richard P. 
White and Caroline Earle ; married, February 10, 1880, Martha 
Campion Stockton (died September 3, 1883), and December 13, 
1897, Harriet L. Brown. Residence, No. 2029 Locust Street, 
Philadelphia; business address, Nos. 1 201-1204 Stephen Girard 
Building, Philadelphia. 

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NELSON OLIVER WHITNEY 

B.S. 

€W"|4^^iHITNEY entered the Freshman Class, Scientific De- 
mJ m. LI partment, in the second term, the spring of 1875. 
^^ ^^ ^ After the Senior examinations he and Lewis at once 
went to work on the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
coming in from the field to receive their diplomas at commence- 
ment, June, 1878. The summer was passed by the men together 
in the same work, their field being eastern Pennsylvania and their 
duties to heliotrope from high exposed elevations on bright days. 
During the following winter and spring Whitney taught at the 
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and at the 
University, assisting Professor Haupt. This work continued until 
after Whitney's appointment, in May, 1879, as draughtsman in 
the chief engineer's office of the Pennsylvania Railroad. After 
serving an apprenticeship in this office, Whitney was assigned 
to the construction of a new branch of the same company up 
the Monongahela River to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where he 
worked for a year, until the completion of the line. In November, 
1880, in company with a score of engineers from all parts of the 

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United States, Whitney left New York City on the Vera Cruz 
steamer, bound for Old Mexico, to take part in the location and 
construction of the Mexican National Railroad, comprising about 
eighteen hundred miles of line. This enterprise occupied about 
fifteen months. While in Mexico Whitney made the ascent of 
Mount Popocatapetl, one of the highest peaks on the North 
American continent. After his return home he spent the four 
years from 1882 to 1886 as locating and resident engineer on the 
construction of the South Pennsylvania Railroad between Har- 
risburg and Bedford, Pennsylvania. This road was the second 
line in the United States projected as a double-track trunk line, 
and necessitated some heavy work, including the Tuscarora tunnel, 
one mile in length, which was on his division. The years 1886 
to 1 89 1 Whitney spent in Chicago, where, as assistant to the 
chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Company, he constructed 
three short lines, — the Calumet River Railway, the South Chicago 
and Southern Railway, and the State Line and Indiana City Rail- 
way, — having general charge of the engineering at the Chicago 
end. In the spring of 1891 Whitney accepted the chair of civil 
engineering at the University of Wisconsin, his special subjects 
being Railroads and Transportation. In the interests of this 
professorship, which he still retains, he spent three months of the 
summer of 1897 travelling in England and France, inspecting the 
docks, railroads, freight yards, and ship canals of these countries. 
He has been engaged as an expert in numerous cases of railroad 
damages and of water rights, recently acting in that capacity for 
the South Dakota Railroad commissioners. He contributes occa- 
sional articles to technical journals. 

Whitney is a member of the General Alumni Society, of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, first vice-president of the 
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Western Society of Engineers, member of the Western Railway 
Club, of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 
and of the Science Club of the University of Wisconsin. 

Born, Aiken, South Carolina, May 3, 1858 ; parents, Alexander 
Nelson Whitney and Elvira Augusta Smith; married, June 12, 
1883, Mary E. Tainter ; children, Helen G., Alden Bradford, 
May P., Edward N., and Alice. Residence, Madison, Wisconsin ; 
business address, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. 




^^■^HE clay breaks dim through veils of cloud, 
£ 1 Grayly fortelling a storm ; 

^^^ Then white flakes fall, whose circles all 
Seem flights of spirit form. 

And I dream till my soul floats out with them 

On the surge of the eastern wind, 
And eddying sails through life's dull pales, 

Leaving my care behind. 

O'er wastes of snow, through hemlocks black 

Aimlessly floating free, 
At last I sink at a streamlet's brink 

Merged in drifting sea. 

Yet keeping, alas ! a consciousness 

Of that I have left behind, 
That binds my will with a numbing chill 

Bleaker than Winter's wind. 

Is Death, then, but half forgetfulness ? 

Can the weight of a soul's despair, 
The aching strife of a weary life, 

Outlive the clay left there ? 

Can grief last on to the farther life, 

And trouble the dead ghost chill ? 
With curious pain life throbs again 

Through my soul that is dreaming still. 

Henry A. Ingram. 
1887. 

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Ifn flfeemottam 

BND shall we mourn for them ? Amid the surge 
f Of changes, and the onward flight of years, 
Shall Memory refuse a fitting dirge 
Or truer tribute of her silent tears ? 

Yet, selfish is the grief that mourns the dead : 
Lost to the world, but gathered to their God, 

Each mounting spirit to its home hath fled, 
And all their grossness mingles with the sod. 

Charles Philip Henry. 



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JOHN ALEXANDER TEAZ 
Died June II, 1876 

WILSON DARLING CRAIG 
Died March 12, 1877 

HENRY HOWARD HOUSTON, JR. 
Died May 13, 1879 

EDWARD SHIPPEN McILVAINE 
Died June 10, 1886 

WILLIAM HENRY STETLER 

Died May 8, 1887 

harry Mcdowell 

Died January 19, 1890 

JAMES CHALICE CRAVEN 

Died March 25, 1893 

WILLIAM PRATT BREED, JR. 
Died February 12, 1895 

STEPHEN FOTTERALL RUSSELL 

Died March I, 1895 

JOHN CASSIN 
Died June 8, 1897 

JOHN HASSINGER MURPHY 

Died December 25, 1897 

AUGUSTUS THOURON 

Died May 21, 1899 
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" Office of the Provost, 
"Philadelphia, April 20, 1899. 

"^^^^^EAR MR. McCOLLIN, — In response to your request, 
Vt 1 I send you the following brief statement of how 
^^^ Houston Hall came to be built : 

"In the winter of 1893-94 I was upon the grounds of the 
University upon a Sunday afternoon. I noticed that one of the 
rooms in College Hall was brightly lighted. Not understanding 
for what purpose such a room could be used on Sunday, I went 
into College Hall and up-stairs to the room in question. I found 
that a group of University students was holding a Sunday after- 
noon service. They had a piano and singing, and one of the 
students made an address, during which he spoke of the great 
lack of, and the great need at the University for, a place which the 
students could have for themselves. 

" This meeting led to a larger one, in the rooms of the Young 
Men's Christian Association, on Woodland Avenue. I attended 
this meeting, as well as a general meeting in the College Chapel. 
Up to this time the discussion was all in the direction of a Young 
Men's Christian Association building. Some pledges for such 
a building were made. The whole question became so interesting, 
and so many people were set to thinking about it, that it was not 
long before many suggestions began to come in, making the 
subject immediately much more comprehensive. 

"Upon the evening of February 15, 1894, I sent a telegram 
to Mr. H. H. Houston, at his home at Chestnut Hill, telling him 

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that I was on my way out to see him. I told Mr. Houston of the 
precise condition of affairs at the University, — that there was no 
spot which the students could call their own ; that when they were 
not at a lecture or a recitation or in the laboratories, they were 
necessarily upon the streets. Mr. Houston immediately made a 
binding contribution of fifty thousand dollars. Notice was then 
given to all interested that suggestions would be gladly received 
as to the practical requirements of the whole student-body in the 
matter of a students' hall. When these were submitted it was 
at once seen that the sum already contributed would not erect 
a building upon the enlarged plans. The subject was again 
brought to the attention of Mr. Houston, and was followed by 
an immediate subscription of fifty thousand dollars additional in 
the name of Mrs. Houston. 

"With this fund in hand, the preparation of plans was sub- 
mitted as a prize contest to the students in our School of Archi- 
tecture ; and the present elevation, with very little change, is the 
work of Mr. Frank Allison Hays. 

"All of us will remember that not long after the corner-stone 
was laid, Mr. Houston died, after a few hours' illness. The 
equipment of the building, its furnishing, the swimming-pool, and 
other objects of student interest, not contemplated upon their 
plane of cost, drew upon the estate of H. H. Houston for a third 
contribution of fifty thousand dollars, and as the result we have 
Houston Hall of to-day. 

"•It was not until after the first contribution of fifty thousand 
dollars that it was decided to name the Hall after Mr. Houston's 
son, and thus make it a memorial to him ; then the thought came 
from the trustees, and not from Mr. Houston or his family. The 
gift was without any condition, and, although deeply gratified at 

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the suggestion to make the building a memorial, Mr. Houston 
said, in accepting the proposition of the trustees, that he wished 
it to be understood that his gift carried with it no obligation to 
associate either his name or that of his son with it. 

" Professor Knight, of St. Andrews, Scotland, in writing to 
the Edinburgh Scotsman his views as to the several universities 
in the United States which he visited, speaks of Houston Hall as 
the most unique gift and the most important gift which came 
under his observation while in this country. 

" Sincerely, 

" Chas. C. Harrison." 




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F the seventeen professors who constituted the Faculty 
of the College on commencement day, June 14, 1878, six 
have died, — Dr. Krauth, the venerable vice-provost, in 
1883 J Professor McElroy, in 1890 ; Dr. Genth, in 1893 ; Professor 
Seidensticker, in 1894; Professor O. H. Kendall, in 1897; and 
Dr. E. Otis Kendall, in 1899. Each of the first-named three 
was still upon the active teaching staff of the College at the time 
of his decease ; and Dr. Kendall, who succeeded Dr. Krauth as 
vice-provost in 1883 and retired in 1893, with the title of hon- 
orary vice-provost and honorary dean of the College Faculty, 
retained his seat in the Faculty, as Thomas A. Scott Professor 
of Mathematics, until the day of his death, when he terminated 
a forty-four years' tenure of the mathematical chair. Dr. Genth 
severed his connection with the University in 1888, and Professor 
Otis H. Kendall in 1889. 

Professor Jackson and Dr. Barker are the only members of 
the old Faculty who remain upon the active roll of the University 
professors, Dr. Stille, Emeritus John Welsh Centennial Professor 
of History, having resigned the provostship and retired from active 
service in the Faculty in 1880; and Dr. Lesley, who is now resi- 
dent in Milton, Massachusetts, having retired in 1890 with the 
title of Emeritus Professor of Geology and Mining. Dr. Edgar F. 
Smith, now Professor of Chemistry at the University, was not a 
member of the Faculty at the time the Class of 1878 was gradu- 
ated, although, as an assistant to Professor Genth, he was the 
active instructor in his department. 

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Dr. Muhlenberg, who now resides at Reading, Pennsylvania, 
resigned the professorship of Greek Language and Literature in 
1888. Professor Marks resigned in 1889, and is now an electrical 
and dynamical engineer and expert in Philadelphia. Professor 
Richards, who resigned in 1891, is a practising architect in the 
same city, where are also Professor Sadtler, who resigned in 1891, 
and is now a consulting chemist and expert, and Professor Haupt, 
who resigned in 1892, and has since that time maintained an office 
as consulting civil engineer. Professor Thompson retired in 1892, 
and was shortly afterwards made president of the Central High 
School of Philadelphia. Dr. Koenig is now Professor of Chem- 
istry and Metallurgy in the Michigan School of Mines, having 
resigned his chair at Pennsylvania in 1892. 

The following letters are published by permission of the 
writers, and require no comment. 

From Dr. Charles y. Stille 

"2201 St. James Place, April 23, 1899. 

" Dear Mr. McCollin, — I look back with the greatest inter- 
est and satisfaction to the days I passed in my relations with the 
members of the Class of 1878. As I look over their names I 
am filled with pride when I remember how they have profited by 
the opportunities they had at College, not merely in acquiring 
knowledge, but of being trained for a higher field of usefulness 
than they are yet not old enough to occupy. They, as a body, 
I remember, during their residence were not only remarkable as 
students, but almost all of them were distinguished for those 
traits as gentlemen by which they are well-known to the wider 
circle who are now their judges. 

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" May I express the hope that they all may long live to pur- 
sue their true career as students and the living witnesses of the 
value of a University in such a community as this. With my 
kindest remembrances to each and every member of the Class, 
and my best wishes for their success in life, 

" Very truly yours, 



"E. G. McCollin, Esq." 



From Dr. George F Barker 

"University of Pennsylvania, 
"Philadelphia, December 16, 1898. 

" Gentlemen, — It is with great pleasure that I respond to the 
kind invitation of Mr. Rowland and send to you herewith my 
heartiest greetings on this, the twentieth anniversary year of 
your graduation. I have always recalled with especial satisfac- 
tion the work done by the Class of '78 in Physics. It was earnest 
and thorough, and, coming as it did so soon after my arrival in 
Philadelphia, it made a deep impression upon me. Hence I have 
followed the subsequent career of the Class with pride and satis- 
faction. And I beg leave, in sending you my congratulations, to 
express the hope that time may deal gently with all of you and 
that you may continue to be one of the brightest of the jewels in 
the coronet of your Alma Mater. 

" Sincerely yours, 

"To the Class of 1878." 

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From Professor Lewis M. Haiipt 

"Department of State, 

" Nicaragua Canal Commission, 

" Philadelphia, December 17, 1898. 

"My dear Rowland, — It gives me great pleasure to ac- 
knowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the 10th inst. 
requesting me to favor you with a letter for publication in your 
Class record. 

" My public engagements prevent my doing the subject jus- 
tice at this time, and hence I can only convey my greetings to 
your members in a few words of commendation. 

" Twenty years of business activity have made your Class a 
factor in the world, and no doubt many additions have been 
added to your number in this time in the shape of a prom- 
ising posterity. These, too, I must regard with affection as my 
grandchildren, to whom I extend my best wishes. It gives me 
great pleasure to keep in touch with my University Alumni and 
to wish them all God-speed in the journey of life. 

" Sincerely yours, 

"Wm. L. Rowland, Esq." 

From Dr. George A. Koenig 

" Michigan College of Mines. 
" Houghton, Michigan, January 29, 1899. 

" My dear Friends, — You wish me to look back with you 
twenty years. To you this means looking into dawn, to me into 
the bright sunshine of life at mid-day. You have reached now 

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the zenith of your lives ; for me the shadows are growing- long, as 
of an evening. It was a glowing life then, though not you nor I 
grasped its full import. Only when we look backward do the 
lost opportunities come into the right perspective. The routine 
of school-life had become irksome to you ; you yearned for the 
world of free action and enjoyment. For my own part I had just 
fully awakened to the fact that the most learned knew but little 
that was worth knowing — that all my future life would be or should 
be a struggle to get a little nearer to the inside of things. I do 
not now blame friend Helme for going quietly to sleep in a morn- 
ing lecture on metallurgy or applied chemistry. It must have 
been to you verily as dry as Professor Dry-as-Dust's treatise on 
the History of Prussia, as Carlyle says in his Life of Frederick 
the Great. I am only surprised that he was the only one som- 
niferously hypnotized by lead-lined tanks and Hasenclever's 
roasting furnaces. Indeed, from this way-down stand-point of 
life, I congratulate the rest of you for your wide-awakeness. 
Your true philosopher would find, at this point, a fine vantage 
for inquiry as to who was wiser in those days, Helme or the rest 
of you. Who has gotten a better berth now ? But no, I am 
not a philosopher in this sense ; I will put it differently. Who 
has had the most satisfaction of his life, including his College 
days ? 

" For the satisfaction lies in the doing of what we like best to 
do, and doing it well, although the latter clause is included in the 
first, since we do that best for which our senses are most sharp- 
ened. In certain ways I was better acquainted with your class 
than I had been with any other before or have been with any 
since. I have lived a part of your college life with you as man 
with man. I have seen more of the men of '86 since their gradu- 

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ation than I have of you, but in student days I was more with 
you than with them. 

"All of you I liked well, as younger brothers ; you were first- 
rate boys, to put it tersely. To my present Western boys I am 
more of a father than a brother ; I believe that I have come to be 
somewhat of a scolding parent, yet I know that they get the 
meaning of it, and like me no less for it. Did I ever scold you ? 
Verily, I have forgotten all about it ; nothing has remained in my 
memory but the most pleasant incidents, notably those of Phi 
Kappa Psi and our summer trips. But to come back to my the- 
sis, you would like to know what I thought of you as individuals 
twenty years ago. No one of you has been hanged, which I may 
take as confirmation of my then high idea of you all as good 
fellows. But did I think that all of you were being benefited by 
courses of study in the University for which your natural equip- 
ments most fitted you ? Or that you were all satisfied with your 
present and possible future employment ? Not by a long shot. 
I regretted the narrowness of the University curriculum for the 
sake of several. We had not launched out into electives then, 
and if we had, there would not have been enough of them to go 
round for all the talent of the ring. 

" Brother Helme I figured to myself as a bank-director or 
president as often as he went to sleep. What a pity that the 
glory of the Wharton School was not yet blazing over a non- 
statistical world. Would not Helme have been a shining light 
among the luminaries ? 

"Alas, poor Yorick ! alas, poor Elwell ! Thou genial sprite 
in the dreary toils of science ! Thou seemest as a fish out of 
water. Thy brain was subtle, but what could blow-piping be to 
thee ? And thou wentest from bad to worse. Ship-chandlering 

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for such a spirit ! Verily, thy fate was sad. I weep for thee ! 
Poor Murphy is more indistinct in my memory. I seem to 
remember that I did not believe him cut out for an engineer. 
The look of a man's eye is tell-tale whether he is in his right 
place or not. His eye used to wander in the recitations, as if 
trying to catch up with some mischief. He would have perhaps 
been another Conan Doyle if misjudgment had not put him into 
an engineering way. 

" Rowland, d'Invilliers, Church, and Lewis seemed in their 
proper element. No wandering of the eye, no sleepiness. I 
set them down as getting the tools ready for good work in the 
rightly chosen profession. And whilst you were thus sharpening 
your wits and had a good time over it, more or less, the present 
writer himself made the great mistake of his life, and you knew 
it not. I shifted from chemistry to geology, like a foolish boy 
who throws away a diamond for a piece of colored glass. For 
in geology the best man can do nothing that is really worth 
doing. I paid the penalty in losing the fourteen best years of 
my life. You are not yet too old but that this may be a warning 
to one or another of you. If you have found out what you 
are best fitted to do, — i.e., what you like best, — then stick to it, 
whatever inducement be held out to drag you into something 
else. 

"Let not the gold dazzle your sight, nor yet the despised 
silver, though it be the dollar of your daddies. The work is the 
satisfaction of life, and nothing else. I shifted back to my proper 
base in time to learn what I missed, yet not too late to get some 
real pleasure from it. When you meet this coming summer in 
Houston Hall on commencement day, think that my mahatma 
moves among you. 

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"What changes time brings! To think that Dr. Pepper's 
silvery speech will henceforth be absent from these occasions. 
Who will now urge you to part with hard-earned shekels in order 
to put more brick and mortar together ? Poor Houston ! when 
I walked through the stately Hall two years ago I thought of him. 
He was not in his element either as a student of engineering. 
Peace be to his ashes ! 

" With best wishes for all of you, 




"To the Class of 1878, 

" University of Pennsylvania!' 

From Professor William D. Marks 

"The Art Club of Philadelphia, 
"December 19, 1898. 

" My dear Church, — Thanks for your thoughtful courtesy. 

" I fear that I have been so long away from the University that 
I have lost the power to write long or reminiscent letters. I 
have, however, a delightful recollection of those halcyon days, 
when, with my associated professors, I was engaged in the acqui- 
sition and imparting of knowledge. There it was not a distinction 
to be frank and honorable in all the relations of life ; it was a 
matter of course, and a disgrace to think of being otherwise. 

"But it is of the Class of '78 that you have asked me to 
speak. ' The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to 
the strong.' Yet, as I think that Class over, — Church, d'Invilliers, 

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Murphy, Rowland, Elwell, Norris, Helme, Rutter, and others of 
my section, — I cannot but feel that they were all men of good 
promise and that they have succeeded with a uniformity that is 
rarely met with. 

''With sincere congratulations to the Class" and the earnest 
wish that all good things of this world may come to you and to 
them, I am as ever 





"To Arthur L. Church, Esq., 
11 For the Class of 1878, 

" University of Pennsylvania'' 

From Dr. Frederick A. Muhlenberg 

"Reading, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1899. 

" My dear Mr. McCollin, — A favorable answer to your 
reasonable and politely expressed request cannot well be refused, 
but I fear that the disabilities of age, impaired memory and vision 
may prevent me from sending such a reply as will meet with your 
wishes or expectations. 

" I recollect the surprise which the notice of my election to the 
Greek professorship in the University of Pennsylvania occasioned 
me ; equally well the doubts I entertained of acceptance. The 
University had always been regarded by me with reverence, 
for many of my ancestors had received their education in its 
academic, collegiate, and medical departments, and the thought 
of being associated with so many distinguished professors, and 
especially of taking the place of such an erudite scholar as 

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Dr. Allen, and of having, in all probability, to be introduced to 
new and perhaps advanced modes of instruction, caused me 
some hesitation. The kind words of Drs. Charles Porterfield 
Krauth and Charles W. Schaeffer (who belong no longer to this 
sphere), but more particularly the considerate kindness and en- 
couragement of Dr. C. J. Stille (who is still alive and engaged 
in doing such excellent work for his beloved city and State in the 
wide domain of history), induced me to accept the important post. 
The gracious reception tendered me by your Class especially, 
and the other students of the University generally, cheered me 
in the commencement and progress of my work and enabled me 
to prosecute the labors connected with the position, pleasant 
though they were, with increasing confidence and satisfaction. 

"I do not recall with precision all the members of your Class ; 
the shadowy forms of most of them return, but the rest have 
passed out of my recollection. One whom I do not forget is 
Mr. McDowell, the originator of the voluntary Hebrew Class, 
of whom I could have wished ' sero redeat in ccelum.' I can 
assure you, my dear Mr. McCollin, that I still have, as I had 
then, a great regard for the Class. I recognize at this day the 
great ability of many of them, the gentlemanly conduct of them 
all, and that among them I had some very dear and intimate 
pupils. My intercourse with the members of your Class, as far 
as my memory serves me, was attended with nothing of an 
unpleasant nature during the two years I was with you, and it 
has given me pleasure to learn of the success and usefulness of 
the majority of them in the varied avocations of life, and of hon- 
orable ambition to which they have devoted themselves, and it 
will give me still greater pleasure to hear of their higher eleva- 
tion in the future in their professions and business pursuits. 

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" You will please, my dear Mr. McCollin, as a worthy repre- 
sentative of your Class, give them these few details of life since 
my resignation from the University of Pennsylvania. 

" Called providentially to Reading, I have here remained in 
quiet retirement. During the years of 1892 and 1893 I consented 
to act as temporary president of Thiel College, Greenville, Penn- 
sylvania, until they should elect a permanent one. There I re- 
mained two years, not without useful results. Since that time I 
have continued to reside at Reading, acting as presiding officer 
of the ' Lutheran Pastoral Association' of that city, where, in 
mutual weekly intercourse and with different acquirements, we 
strive to prepare ourselves for the more efficient discharge of 
our duties and at the same time improve ourselves in Hebrew 
and Greek. This employment has been a constant source of 
delight to me and has kept alive my love for the great lan- 
guage, in which it was my privilege to instruct you during my 
connection with the University. 

4 'With best wishes for the success of your publication, I 

remain, 

41 Your former professor and friend, 

" Edward G. McCollin, Esq." 

From Professor Thomas W. Richards 

"Philadelphia, April 8, 1899. 

''Gentlemen, — A quarter of a century ago I first had the 
pleasure of meeting the Class of 'j8. It was the third class to 
enter, for instruction, the then new College building. Many im- 

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provements and changes for the better have been made since 
that time, and the marvellous growth and great success attending 
the University is a matter for sincere congratulation. 

"Although the members of your Class, as well as others, have 
missed some of these recent advantages, it seems to me that you 
were all profitably employed and have individually improved in 
after years — that the work that you had to do was well done. 

•" I am happy to have this opportunity of expressing my 
recollections of our pleasant intercourse and of thanking you 
for the courtesy and attention always accorded to me. 

/UsC^s*. /CtZvAf MviAsr-Tf 

"To the Class of 1878." 

From Doctor Samuel P. Sadtler 

"Philadelphia, December 22, 1898. 

" My dear Mr. Rowland, — Of the many classes that occu- 
pied the chairs of the chemical lecture-room and graduated and 
passed out into active life during the seventeen years that I was 
a professor in the University, I know of none that call up pleas- 
anter recollections than the Class of '78. 

"As I pick up the catalogue of '77-78 and look at the names 
of the Class as constituted during their last year, I can recall, 
as if seen yesterday, the faces of most of them. This is espe- 
cially true of those on the scientific side, as they took a fuller 
course in chemistry extending through several years, so that I 
saw more of them. The fact that several ladies were also taking 

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the course in chemistry at this time, attending lectures as well as 
working in the laboratory, is also recalled as a pleasant recollec- 
tion of this period. I remember well the interest that attached 
to that corner of Dr. Genth's laboratory where Miss Peirce and 
Miss Flanigen had their working places. 

"The University in those days had not grown to the dimen- 
sions which it has since acquired, and while there was less of the 
diversified university life, there was more of the distinctive col- 
lege feature about it. There was less heard about intercollegiate 
foot-ball and similar sports, and more about the fun within the 
walls of the old College building. So probably some of your 
pleasantest recollections centre, as I am sure mine do, about the 
daily doings in the lecture-rooms, corridors, and assembly-room, 
about matters which seem trivial to an outsider, but which were 
full of interest to the several actors and spectators. I was a 
young professor at that time, not so many years removed from 
my own college days, and capable of appreciating fully the feel- 
ings and interests of an undergraduate. While that was twenty 
years ago, I can still enjoy, at least, the memory of it when the 
reminiscent mood overtakes me, as it does those who are grow- 
ing old, and I hope that other interests and occupations will 
never entirely blot out those recollections. 

"One other word about the Class of '78 and then done. It 
has been my fortune to have and maintain an acquaintance with 
many of this Class in their maturer years and to meet them in 
professional and business life. This is an unfailing source of 
pleasure to me, and is more than compensation for the trials and 
tribulations I suffered as teacher in former years. 

" Both the former student and the former professor who meet 
thus in the wider arena of life have probably a more just and fair 

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appreciation of each other's good points. The professor must 
admit that the young man he once thought lazy and indifferent 
has turned out well after all, and the student will perhaps come 
to believe that the professor is not so absolutely unfair and 
prejudiced as he once seemed in the days of their class-room 
associations. 

"With the best of wishes for the future of all of the Class of 
'78, I beg to sign myself 




" W. L. Rowland, Esq., 

" Class 0/1878, University of Pennsylvania!' 

From Dr. Edgar F Smith 

" University of PennsylvaniAj 
"December 21, 1898. 

" My dear Sir, — I scarcely know where I should commence 
in my attempt to write about the Class of ,f /S, for the mere men- 
tion of that class calls up a host of the most pleasant memories. 

" In the fall of 1876 I began my work as assistant in the 
Department of Chemistry. The science section of the Class 
also began its work in the analytical laboratory, and there we 
first met. I confronted Arthur Church, Ned d'Invilliers, Jack 
Murphy, 'Mother' Rowland, John Crozer, ' Chiner' Elwell, 'Jase' 
Norris, Billy Helme, Charlie Rutter, and many others. Being 
almost of their age, they naturally, upon their first appearance in 
the laboratory, concluded that I was an addition to the Class, or a 

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foreigner of some sort, and so told me many rather astonishing 
things about the various professors ; and I can yet see the rather 
funny expressions upon the countenances of several of them 
when, after listening quietly to their yarns, I concluded, as the 
time for work had arrived, to call them to order and to their 
places. Just what they said I didn't hear, but Jack Murphy 
and ' Mother' Rowland did the saying, and the class can draw 
its own inferences. That was the beginning. During the two 
years in which we worked together only kindness was received 
by me from every member of the several sections placed in my 
charge. 

" But it was not only the Science men who proved so friendly 
to me. In the Arts section I found a congenial and brilliant 
body of young men, broad in their views and an honor to any 
institutution of learning. Strange as it may seem, I can still see 
the gigantic razor with which Harry McDowell was presented on 
Class-day. After that the fuzzy beard was no longer visible. 
And there recur to me parts of the Class history in which, 
somewhere, words like the following were delivered : ' I am sure 
that the very pleasantest remembrances of our College course 
will cling around the name of Dr. Koenig,' — 'kind-hearted, 
old Freiberg Koenig !' And the doctor never forgot the men 
of '78. 

" It was during these years of your College course that I 
assisted in the establishment of a chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi 
fraternity, and drew many of '78's men into the new organization 
which has existed since in our great University family. 

"The men of '78 did excellent work as students, and more 
than verified, by their later achievements in the broad arena of 
life's battles, the fondest expectations we entertained for them. 

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They were manly, true, and faithful, and their subsequent lives 
have been the same. 

"I congratulate the Class upon having attained its majority, 
and wish for all its members an abundance of prosperity. 







"Wm. L. Rowland, Esq., 
"■For Class of y 78." 

From Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson 

11 Central High School, 
" Philadelphia, April 6, 1899. 

•' My dear Friend, — It gratifies me greatly to hear that my 
old friends in your Glass have not forgotten the pleasant relations 
which existed between us during the four years of our connec- 
tion as professor and students. I cherish the kindest recollec- 
tions of the Class, although some members of it stand out much 
more distinctly in my memory than do others. Who can ever 
forget Jefferys, the eloquent and aggressive Jerseyman, who 
stirred Dr. Stille's bile on that ever memorable morning by 
declaiming ' John Brown at Gettysburg ?' I had a letter from 
him in Japan the other day, and it was a welcome reminder of as 
true-hearted a man as lives on this planet. How the Japs take 
to him is something I would like to know ! 

" As I look down the list of your Class I seem to be reading 
a list of my friends of past days. It was a Class which com- 
manded the cordial respect of all its teachers for its propriety 

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of conduct, its faithfulness to duty, and its ability. From my 
own experience, I feel you look back upon those four years as 
among the pleasantest in life, as years in which you got nearer 
to your fellows than is possible in any other circumstances. If in 
any measure your teachers contributed to the enjoyment as well 
as to the profit which gave them character, I am sure we will 
think it a privilege to have done so. 
" I remain with great regard, 

" Very truly yours, 

" Mr. Arthur L. Church, 

4 ' Secretary of the Class of 1878, 

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